Summary
David Vaness is a product-minded engineering leader with 7 years in professional roles and over a decade founding and running his own digital agency, now based in Itzehoe, Germany. He currently leads a 30+ cross-functional team at Accenture Song, combining CTO-level architecture, cloud and AI responsibility with product leadership and client-facing duties. David has a track record of building content automation platforms from the ground up, scaling teams from a single developer to 30+ engineers while introducing AI capabilities and robust AWS-based infrastructures. He is experienced managing onshore/offshore orgs across AI, DevOps, frontend and backend disciplines and owns end-to-end technical decisions including system design and pricing negotiations. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and strategic product vision, he brings entrepreneurial grit from 13+ years of agency ownership to large-enterprise delivery. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained ability to translate client workshops and requirements into pragmatic, production-ready AI integrations.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences