Daniel Schosser - Engineering Leader I build software, and lead the teams that ship it.
Engineering leader with more than two decades of experience building software and leading the teams that ship it. Co-founded a startup acquired by Veracode, led a full-stack modernization as CTO, and built and sold a 25,000-user platform.
Currently Engineering Manager at Airalo, driving the development of innovative products that are redefining the eSIM marketplace.
- 20+
- Years building & leading
- 80+
- Engineers led
- 2
- Startups exited
- 25k+
- Users on a platform I built
From first commit to CTO
Cumulative, across five companies
Sold to Veracode · platform sold
Founded, scaled, and sold
Engineering leadership across
How I lead
Leadership
I lead by turning ambiguous goals into shipped software and engineers into teams that own their work. Across startups and scale-ups I’ve paired a strong bias for security, scalability, and meaningful results with the people work - hiring, mentoring, and aligning engineering with the business - that makes delivery repeatable.
Focus areas
- Engineering Management
- Tech Strategy & Modernization
- Team Leadership
- DevSecOps Culture
- Startups & M&A
Education
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MSc Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Thesis: Tool Support for Social Engineering Threat Analysis
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BSc Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Thesis: Gamification of Fitness Machines
Location
Munich, Germany
Career
Experience
Twenty years of building software and leading the people who build it. Three of these roles have a full case study - the constraints, the tradeoffs, and what I would do differently.
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Jun 2025 - Present
Airalo
Engineering Manager
Managing across frontend, backend & mobile on the world’s largest eSIM marketplace.
Leading the development of innovative products and new opportunities that are reshaping how eSIMs are used - across a mobile-first, high-volume marketplace serving users worldwide.
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Apr 2022 - Jan 2025
Juniqe
CTO
Led engineers, DevOps & BI - and aligned engineering with the C-level.
Designed and launched a new marketplace business model while keeping the legacy shop running through a full-stack modernization, and owned technology strategy through the Myposter Group merger.
- Go
- PHP
- Symfony
- Vue 3
- AWS
- GCP
- Commercetools
- Looker
New platform launched out of the merger
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Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Myposter
Team Lead Software Engineering & Tech Lead DevOps
Led backend & DevOps engineers across PHP and Go.
Drove project development for a high-traffic e-commerce platform through seasonal peaks, stood up the DevOps practice and CI/CD, and owned the collaboration between engineering and BI.
- Go
- PHP
- Symfony
- Vue 3
- AWS
- Adyen
- GitHub Actions
Service Development and DevOps practice established
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Apr 2015 - Dec 2020
Crashtest Security
Co-Founder & Head of Development
Co-founded a security startup and led backend - sold to Veracode in 2022.
Built a fully automated DAST scanner for web apps and APIs; ran the backend team, payments, the Kubernetes infrastructure and represented the product through conference talks and hands-on security workshops.
- Go
- PHP
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Vault
- Stripe
Acquired by Veracode in 2022, after my time
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Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
TEDxTUM
Head of Operations
Ran the operations department for a major TEDx event.
Managed the operations team and brought every department together to deliver the event - the earliest role where the job was aligning people rather than writing the code.
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Jan 2012 - Jul 2018
Schosser-IT
Self-Employed
Built UniStuff to 25,000+ registered students - later sold.
Founded and grew a student study-materials platform from first line of code to acquisition, alongside web development for small and medium businesses.
- PHP
- Laravel
- JavaScript
- jQuery
What I build with
Engineering
Hands-on across the stack for 20+ years - from Go and PHP services to cloud infrastructure and the DevSecOps practices that keep them shipping safely.
Languages
- Go
- PHP
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
Backend & APIs
- Gin
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Microservices
- REST
- GraphQL
Cloud & Infra
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Vault
Frontend
- Vue
- React
- Tailwind
- Cypress
Practices
- DevSecOps
- TDD
- CI/CD
- Datadog
- Sentry
Payments
- Stripe
- Adyen
- Primer.io
- Checkout.com
Speaking
Conference Talks
10 talks · 12 appearances
Side projects
Other things I've built
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Interactive platform for radio exercises of emergency services - routes drawn along real streets, draggable team markers and task pins, and print-ready A3 situation plans and A4 task lists off the same map.
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Password Generator
LiveA secure password generator with customizable options.
VueJavaScript -
Stable Diffusion Prompt Templates
Open sourceWidely-used prompt templates for Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT and Midjourney.
Prompt Engineering -
Cards Against Developers
Open sourceAn alternative card game to "Cards Against Humanity" built by and for developers.
LaTeXGame Design -
CV Generator
Personal toolGenerate a fully customizable CV from a single JSON file. It renders the CV linked from this site.
VueJavaScript
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