Daniel W
Chief Product Officer at ALTAFINO
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel W is a seasoned product and technology leader with over two decades of C-level and founder experience, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at HORISEN where he oversees SaaS and OnPrem product strategy, API integrations, and responsible AI initiatives. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (Golang, JS frameworks, SQL/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes) with executive product management, having led major platform migrations and developer empowerment efforts. Daniel has built and scaled distributed teams and products across Europe, the Americas, and Southeast Asia, blending agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean with practical documentation and onboarding processes. He also runs a software consultancy (ALTAFINO) and brings a startup founder’s grit—moving ideas from MVP to production rapidly while maintaining technical ownership. Unusually for an executive, he remains deeply involved in engineering and AI toolchains, applying generative and agentic AI both strategically and in code-level implementations.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Managerial Economics, Business/Managerial Economics at AKAD Zürichname it, Computer Software Engineering, name it, Computer Software Engineering at Live School (Learning by doing)
German, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (24)
dotenv10
tailwind10
boilerplate10
webpack9
tailwindcss9
react9
eslint8
sass8
postcss7
server-side-api7
hmr5
autocomplete4
api4
server-side4
google-autocomplete4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stefanwuthrich/cached-google-places
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
altafino/react-webpack-5-tailwind-2
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
React 17 Boilerplate with Webpack 5, Tailwind 2, using babel, SASS/PostCSS, HMR, dotenv and an optimized production build
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
tailwindcsstailwindpostcsswebpack-5boilerplate-template
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