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Bio

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH, where he leads the AI Engineering & Developer Productivity practice. He helps development teams adopt AI tools in a way that holds up in production.

Before SHI he was Principal Consultant for Generative AI at Thinktecture AG, and before that Lead Software Developer at finanzen.net zero and a developer at Wipro Technologies. He has been building software since 2015, focusing on enterprise web applications (Angular, React, .NET), test automation and CI/CD.

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP for Web Development & Developer Tools, has been speaking since 2024 with more than 50 talks in over ten countries, and works as a technical editor for Manning. His argument: AI does not make teams uniformly faster, it amplifies what is already there. Teams with solid quality gates get better, teams without them get worse faster. That is why his projects start with a baseline and not with a tool selection.

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Topics

Spec-driven development

Turning one-off lucky hits into reproducible results: a written spec that comes before the implementation and stays binding.

Developer productivity

Where AI has real impact and where it does not — with the numbers from METR and DORA, and honest about what they say.

Test automation

Playwright and end-to-end testing as the quality gate that has to hold before any agent is let loose on the codebase.

Upcoming

OnlineWorkshopHeld in English

AI for Developer Productivity

angulararchitects.io

AI coding agents generate code faster than teams can review it. This one-day workshop covers the techniques that turn that speed into actual throughput: context engineering, loop…

BerlinKeynoteHeld in German

Wieso dich KI nicht produktiver macht

JS & Angular Days

„Mit KI sind wir jetzt doppelt so schnell!“ Die sauberste Studie zum Thema misst das Gegenteil — und die Beteiligten waren felsenfest überzeugt, schneller zu sein. Das…

WarsawWorkshopHeld in English

AI for Developer Productivity

AI Poland Master Class

AI coding agents generate code faster than teams can review it. This one-day workshop covers the techniques that turn that speed into actual throughput: context engineering, loop…

Recordings

Prompt. Build. Repeat. – The Vibe Coding Mindset

NDC Copenhagen 2025

Code smarter, not harder: How AI Tools Boost Your Productivity

Frontend Nation 2025

Past talks

OnlineTalkHeld in English

Spec Driven Development: The End Of Vibe Coding

DevLand 2026

FrankfurtTalkHeld in German

Spec Driven Development - The End of Vibe Coding

BASTA! Spring Frankfurt 2026

OnlineTalkHeld in English

Spec Driven Development - Vibe Coding Done Right

AI Coding Summit 2026

KarlsruheTalkHeld in German

Code Smarter, not harder: How AI Coding Tools Boost Your Productivity

.NET Meetup Karlsruhe

WarsawTalkHeld in English

Code smarter, not harder: How AI Coding Tools Boost Your Productivity

NG Poland 2025

WarsawWorkshopHeld in English

AI-Powered Development: Transform Your Workflow with Coding Tools and MCP Servers

NG Poland Master Class 2025

CopenhagenTalkHeld in English

Prompt. Build. Repeat. – The Vibe Coding Mindset

NDC Copenhagen 2025

ZurichTalkHeld in English

Code smarter, not harder

.NET Day Switzerland 2025

BerlinTalkHeld in German

GitHub Copilot

Angular Days Berlin 2025

MainzTalkHeld in German

Code smarter, not harder

BASTA! Mainz 2025

KarlsruheTalkHeld in German

Code smarter, not harder

Java User Group Karlsruhe 2025

MunichTalkHeld in German

AI-Powered Development

Angular Meetup Munich 2025

GrazTalkHeld in German

Prompt. Build. Repeat. – The Vibe Coding Mindset

Angular Graz Meetup

DusseldorfTalkHeld in German

From Copilot to Autopilot – How AI Coding Tools Are Transforming the Developer Role

EKON 2025

CologneTalkHeld in German

From Copilot to Autopilot - How AI Coding Tools Are Transforming the Developer Role

c't WebDev 2025

WarsawKeynoteHeld in English

The New Developer Workflow: How AI Transforms Ideas into Code

Warsaw AI Summit 2025

Career

  1. 2026 - today

    Director of AI Engineering · SHI GmbH

    Building and leading the AI Engineering & Developer Productivity practice — technically, as a line manager and commercially. With clients: an assessment of the delivery pipeline, hardening of the quality gates in CI, and rolling out AI tooling in the repositories they already have.

  2. 2024 - 2026

    Principal Consultant AI & Conference Speaker · Thinktecture AG

    Consulting for development teams in industry and mid-sized companies on generative AI and developer productivity. Regular speaker at international conferences.

  3. 2023 - today

    Trainer · Angular Architects

    Workshops for Angular development teams on architecture, testing and AI-assisted development.

  4. 2021 - 2024

    Lead Software Developer · finanzen.net zero GmbH

    Led the frontend team of a mobile trading platform: architecture decisions, code quality and mentoring.

  5. 2018 - 2021

    Software Developer · Wipro Technologies GmbH

    Enterprise web and mobile applications, mainly Angular and Ionic.

  6. 2015 - 2018

    Dual Student & Developer · Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus

    Dual study programme combined with development work on banking applications.

Press kit

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Name
Daniel Sogl
Role
Director of AI Engineering, SHI GmbH

Long bio

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH, where he leads the AI Engineering & Developer Productivity practice. He helps development teams adopt AI tools in a way that holds up in production.

Before SHI he was Principal Consultant for Generative AI at Thinktecture AG, and before that Lead Software Developer at finanzen.net zero and a developer at Wipro Technologies. He has been building software since 2015, focusing on enterprise web applications (Angular, React, .NET), test automation and CI/CD.

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP for Web Development & Developer Tools, has been speaking since 2024 with more than 50 talks in over ten countries, and works as a technical editor for Manning. His argument: AI does not make teams uniformly faster, it amplifies what is already there. Teams with solid quality gates get better, teams without them get worse faster. That is why his projects start with a baseline and not with a tool selection.

Profile bio

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly at international conferences and workshops on turning AI tools into measurable gains in developer productivity and code quality.

Short bio (160 characters)

Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. AI in the software delivery lifecycle, for our own teams and our clients. Speaks regularly at conferences.

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