Daniel Schlaepfer
Co-Founder at smartridr ag
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDaniel Schlaepfer is a seasoned product and operations leader with 13 years of experience building programs and teams across insurance, contact-center technology, and startup ventures. As co-founder of smartridr AG he led the design, testing and commercialization of WhizRider—a pocketable, standards-certified child restraint born from two years of biomechanical research—bringing safety, convenience and mobility to modern families. Previously he ran project and portfolio management, workforce optimization and change programs at AXA, delivering large-scale transformations and integrated workload solutions. Based in Zurich and trained in business informatics, he blends technical program rigor with customer-driven product invention, and retains an uncommon interest in ecosystem-scale environmental responses from his research-oriented GitHub bio. Practical, process-oriented and entrepreneurial, he thrives at the intersection of safety-critical product design and operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wirtschaftsinformatik at Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich HWZ
English, French, German
Github Skills (52)
simulation10
r-package10
r10
simulation-framework10
doxygen10
satellite-images9
spatial9
raster8
linter8
scenarios8
traits7
soil7
git7
datacube7
geospatial7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DrylandEcology/rSW2exter
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Access external data as input for SOILWAT2 and STEPWAT2 simulations
Contributions:6 releases, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 6 months
simulationssimulation
DrylandEcology/rSW2st
Oct 2020 - Apr 2026
Spatiotemporal tools for SOILWAT2 and STEPWAT2 simulation experiments
Contributions:5 releases, 27 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 years 7 months
spatiotemporalsimulation
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