Daniel Steigerwald
Founder at Evolu
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Steigerwald is a Prague-based founder and open-source developer with 15 years of experience building front-end, local-first, and distributed systems. As founder of Evolu, he focuses on privacy-first, vendor-lock-in-free platforms and contributes full-stack implementations that bridge Next.js frontends with Node.js backends. His background includes creating Este, a universal React starter kit, and early work on mapping and portal projects, reflecting a long-standing interest in practical, user-centered web tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he combines hands-on prototyping with production-grade protocol work (protobuf updates noted in Evolu), showing attention to both UX and data interoperability. Beyond product work, he brings the perspective of an engineer who has repeatedly turned developer tooling ideas into reusable, open-source platforms.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta informatiky a statistikyBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Czech, English
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
react-hooks10
react10
typescript-types10
crdt9
nodejs9
sqlite8
protobuf8
protobuffer8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
evoluhq/evolu
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A local-first platform designed for privacy, ease of use, and no vendor lock-in
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 159 commits, 280 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed significantly to the Evolu project, adding examples of Next.js and Node.js server implementations. Their work included setting up and configuring the Next.js example, integrating the Evolu library with Next.js components, and implementing features such as mnemonic display and category management. The user also updated protobuf definitions and made code formatting adjustments, indicating a focus on both frontend and backend development within the project.
local-firstreactend-to-endsyncreact-hooks
este/este
Feb 2013 - Sep 2019
This repo is suspended.
Contributions:3 releases, 2306 commits, 445 PRs in 6 years 7 months
suspended
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