Daniel Hutzel
Chief Product Owner & Chief Architect at SAP
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Hutzel is a seasoned software leader and architect with over 10 years in senior technology roles at SAP, currently serving as Chief Product Owner & Chief Architect for the Cloud Application Programming Model. He blends hands-on development with strategic product leadership, having driven platform and framework decisions across NetWeaver, cloud, UI and integration technologies for nearly two decades. As creator and evangelist of CAP, he accelerates enterprise cloud app development while still contributing code—most recently to front-end SAP CAP samples, adding a Vue.js storefront, auth, search and OData v2/v4 support. Based in Karlsruhe, he pairs deep platform expertise with an engineer’s pragmatism and a reputation for turning complex enterprise constraints into usable developer guardrails. His GitHub motto—Nich lang schnacken, Kopp in Nacken—hints at a pragmatic, get-things-done ethos that complements his strategic view of product and platform evolution.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
odata10
vue-jsx10
axios9
html9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SAP-archive/cloud-cap-samples
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
This repo is archived → find our samples at https://github.com/capire
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 463 commits, 261 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end implementation of the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model samples. They made changes to the UI, including adding a Vue.js app for browsing and ordering books, and implemented features like user login and search functionality. They also modified various configurations of the UI. Additionally, they adapted the existing UI to use OData v2 as well as v4.
cloud-applicationcloud-foundrysap-hanaprogramming-modelopenui5
cap-js/calesi
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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