Daniel Schweighöfer
Senior Backend Developer at Babbel (Lesson Nine GmbH)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Schweighöfer is a Senior Backend Developer with 14 years of experience building and refactoring high-performance web applications and infrastructure, primarily in Ruby/Rails and increasingly in Elixir. He combines a systems administration background with engineering craftmanship, favoring stable, clear and forward-looking designs when transforming monoliths into service-oriented architectures. Daniel has led small teams, mentored juniors, and driven large refactors at companies like Babbel and Liefery, while also contributing to Elixir services and cross-team projects. Comfortable across the full stack and operational concerns—from OS and network architecture to deployment toolchains—he brings pragmatic DevOps sensibilities to backend development. Colleagues describe him as open, supportive, and fast to learn new technologies, with a particular interest in expanding his hands-on experience beyond Ruby.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomstudiengang Informatik, Diplomstudiengang Informatik at Universität PaderbornFachhochschulreife, Fachhochschulreife at Fachoberschule Bebra
German, English
Github Skills (49)
jsonapi-resources10
json-api9
authorization8
pundit6
rails6
openvpn6
vulnerabilities5
forum5
ruby5
jira5
security-vulnerability4
mysqli4
static-analysis4
gitlab4
speaker4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acid/Dotfiles
Sep 2011 - Mar 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 6 months
POSpulse/jsonapi-resources
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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