Daniel Watts Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Berlin Area, Germany

• Served as Venture CTO starting 7 new companies across Music, Healthcare, Logistics, Finance and Insurance industries
• Managed engineering teams (3-12 members) in developing apps from inception all the way through to launch
• Recruited the engineering teams and leadership roles to take over multiple projects post-launch
• Regularly leading tech pitches, product demos and technical strategy work

Berlin Area, Germany

London, England, United Kingdom

• Sollos is a new wellness & audio offering from UMG that harnesses science to support your focus, relaxation and sleep.
• Started as Venture CTO before seconding to UMG to lead Sollos' engineering team to take the product beyond launch
• Responsible for the delivery and maintenance of a high-quality D2C iOS app, audio-streaming experience, backend APIs and event-based systems
• Built and hired a collaborative, highly skilled team of remote engineers, data scientists and QAs
• Helped drive a complicated re-architecture of a content processing pipeline, that used ML to apply specific sound waves to existing audio automatically. We improved the resilience, speed and maintainability of the.
• Helped the team respond and adapt to the changes and challenges of an early-stage organisation

Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

• MusicHub is a platform for artists to organise, release and promote their music independently and with ease.
• Led a team of 6 engineers that delivered the first live MVP with real customers within 3 months
• Within that same 3 month period, we interviewed and hired the engineering team to own and take the product forward
• Built solid relationships with 3 partner organisations, critical to the future of the newly formed company and essential to launch quickly

Berlin / Shanghai

• Led the backend team that delivered an eCommerce backend APIs and infrastructure hosted in China on Alibaba Cloud
• Interviewed and hired the Shanghai-based backend engineering team
• Raised the bar for quality through automated testing, automated deployment and security tooling

Berlin Area, Germany

London, United Kingdom

• Delivered high-quality software based on customer feedback and close collaboration with CEO and sales teams
• Took a lead on recruitment by organising & conducting many interviews and improving the hiring process
• Provided coaching and mentoring to team members to implement best practices for delivering high-quality, tested, and sustainable software
• Contributed to shaping company values and performance review process, emphasizing face-to-face feedback from peers
• Developed and maintained event-driven systems, APIs, and reporting dashboards using Elixir, Ruby, and React. Deployed these services daily to GCE through automated pipelines
• Improved observability of production systems through enhanced alerting and monitoring

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Led and improved product development teams in large financial and insurance organizations
• Set up a new program at a financial services company in Madrid to plan and build an internal PaaS solution
• Facilitated technical discussions on availability, reliability, monitoring, and continuous delivery
• Acted as a technical lead on a transformation project within an insurance company
• Guided the team to release software to production multiple times a day by reducing batch size and introducing WIP limits

London, United Kingdom

• Worked in a highly collaborative environment with small product teams where all development started with a test. Pair programming was commonplace and deployments were automated, daily and painless
• Developed and maintained REST-style APIs for checkout functionality
• Achieved PCI Compliance by safely re-engineering credit card processing without issues
• Optimized high-throughput APIs for a large catalogue of artists, albums, and tracks