Tim Specht
Co-Founder & CTO at Daneel
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTim Specht is a seasoned founder and engineering executive with 13+ years building high-throughput consumer and infrastructure products, most notably co-founding and scaling Dubsmash to hundreds of millions of users before its acquisition by Reddit. As Co-Founder & CTO of Daneel and former Director of Engineering roles at Reddit and Mux, he combines deep distributed-systems and mobile expertise with product-led engineering to drive cost-efficient video platforms and AI-native diligence workflows. Tim repeatedly moves teams from 0-to-1 and through rapid growth, improving key metrics (e.g., 20% product uptake, 30% COGS reduction) while mentoring founders and engineers. Comfortable shipping across stacks (iOS, Swift, Python, Go, Kubernetes, GraphQL), he pairs hands-on technical ownership with strategic fundraising and go-to-market experience. Based in Denver, he’s known for rolling up his sleeves in early-stage builds and for turning static workflows into living, data-driven systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteBachelor's degree IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree IT-Systems Engineering at University of Potsdam
German, English
Stackoverflow
3,098reputation
361kreached
27answers
61questions
django
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
onesignal10
realm10
certificate-pinning10
middleware10
urlrequest10
task-scheduler10
firebase-database10
notification-service10
firebase-storage10
urlsession10
alamofire10
python10
firebase10
swift10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tspecht/weather-app-ios
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
tspecht/aws-sdk-ios
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
mobile-sdkweb-sitesdksdk-for-iosswift
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