He studied Computer Science with Mathematics as a subsidiary subject and earned his diploma degree at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. He specializes in enterprise grade frontend and backend development with a current focus on building a financial risk services platform.Daniel has been developing software for over 25 years, thereof, 15 years professionally. He started to program at the age of 11. His creative work was influenced by computer competitions during the 90s. In the late 90s, he began to develop web applications.Daniel worked as a Software Developer for several companies and is currently employed at the HSH Nordbank. He is focused on designing enterprise architectures and implementing Java enterprise applications. He has a special interest in JVM languages and web frameworks, especially Scala and the Play Framework.