Summary
Ruben Daniels is an entrepreneurial technology steward with 11 years of experience building developer tools, cloud services, and regenerative organizational infrastructure. He co-founded Cloud9 IDE and led it through growth and acquisition by AWS, then ran Cloud9 at Amazon, demonstrating rare expertise in developer platforms and product-scale operations. Since founding Memri, Ruben has focused on data ownership and trustworthy AI, bridging technical infrastructure with non-technical user empowerment. More recently he has shifted into incubating Networked Adaptive Organizations and advising regenerative movements, combining systems design, funding navigation, and community-led governance. His background spans hands-on engineering, CEO-level strategy, and research into digital sovereignty and mutual-credit economics—skills he uses to shepherd emergent socio-technical organisms. Based in the Netherlands, he blends startup grit with a long view on redesigning institutions for collaborative, sustainable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
TU Delft