Danny Schapeit, software engineer from Germany

Now

What I'm up to right now:

  • Android work at SPEDION, as usual
  • Adding new actions to android-toolbox whenever I catch myself typing the same adb command twice
  • Walking the new apprentices through their first code reviews
  • Building a mail client, very slowly
  • This website, obviously

Read Me

Photo of Danny Schapeit on a suspension bridge

Hi, I'm Danny.

I'm 23, I live in Germany and I write software for a living. Most days that means Android and Kotlin at SPEDION, where we build the app truck drivers use all day long: orders, routes, driving times, messages, navigation. If you see a tablet on a truck dashboard telling the driver where to go next, there's a fair chance it's ours.

I got into this through a three-year apprenticeship that started in 2020. In Germany that's called Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung, which is a long way of saying "application developer". I stayed after I finished, and since late 2024 I also train the apprentices who started after me. Some of them are barely younger than I am, which is a weird feeling.

After work I build small tools for problems I keep running into. A terminal app for poking at Android devices, a way to set my Slack status without opening Slack, a CSS file that makes websites look like an old tube monitor. Some of it is useful. Some of it is just fun.

I care a lot about privacy. In 2019 I started Slynite with friends because we wanted software that doesn't collect more data than it needs. That's still the idea behind most things I make, including this site: no trackers, no analytics, no cookie banner.

When I'm not at a keyboard I'm probably out hiking, taking photos, or watching cars go fast.

How to use this computer

Double-click things. Open the menus. Drag windows around by their title bars. There's a Trash, and yes, you can empty it.

If you want to talk about a job, a project or just say hi, open Mail and send me a message.