Summary
Leonard Daume is a hands-on CTO and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and automated CI/CD pipelines from startups to enterprise. Based in Hamburg, he blends Cognitive Science-informed product sense with deep technical fluency across JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Docker, AWS, and modern frontend frameworks to deliver secure, user-focused products. He has repeatedly led and rebuilt engineering teams and architectures—moving legacy systems to microservices, launching PWAs and Next.js relaunches, and operating platforms under a “you build it, you run it” mindset. Leonard is comfortable switching between strategic CTO responsibilities and solo-developer delivery, having served as fractional CTO, consultant, and hands-on implementer across multiple engagements. He coaches agile leadership and product owners, bringing servant and transformational leadership to technical roadmaps and company strategy. An uncommon strength is his cognitive-informatics background, which he leverages to align product decisions with human-centered workflows and automation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Studium von Cognitive Science/Informatics, Studium von Cognitive Science/Informatics at Bielefeld University
German, English, French