I’m Daniel Motz. I anticipate to make the world a better place.

I’ve loved technology ever since I was a child. My first excourse into electronics and computers was with my dad, who let me play around on a Windows XP machine. I was hooked. My first programming language was Small Basic, then Visual Basic, and shortly after switched to C# and developed my first program with a purpose: a tool to take inventory of my parent’s library and music collection. I was 12 years old.

In my teens, I was fascinated by soldering and 8-bit computers, like the KC85/3. It featured a U880, which is a clone of the Z80. Together with a friend, we built an 8-bit computer from scratch, fixed a CRO oscilloscope and harvested old eye-surgery machines for parts. To be honest, he was a lot more into electronics than I am. I learnt a lot from him. We also spent plenty of time playing Minecraft and other computer games, like every other 12-year-old. In 2016 started to work for my father's company, where I was tasked with fixing minor issues with computers in local pharmacies and setting up new ones. When I was bored, I would tinker around with websites (without any frameworks and only using PHP on the backend).

Also in that year, I got into the city’s pupil council, the StadtSchülerRat Chemnitz. I was given the position of IT administrator and was tasked with maintaining the website and email accounts. I went on to become a federal representative for the city of Chemnitz (~25.000 pupils), went on to be elected chairman in 2020 and from 2021-2022 I was directing manager of the city council. During this time I met many officials of the federal state and city and learned a lot about organisation and politics. Lastly, I would like to mention Oliver Sachsze, a friend whom I greatly admire and spent countless days with while travelling, writing motions and speeches and organising events. He shaped Chemnitz’ image amongst government officials on the federal and state level for the better, which he only achieved through his hard work and dedication.

In 2017, I was given more responsibility in the company and was tasked with the administration of the whole network at the age of 17. I was the youngest employee in the company, but I was able to prove myself and was given more and more responsibility. I was able to learn a lot about network administration and security, as well as how to work with adult professionals.

My passion for web development grew, and I started development on the company’s accounting application, where I mostly fixed bugs. Today, together with my team, we develop modern applications that help medical professionals to spend more time with their patients, instead of doing paperwork. Learn more about our work here: mandant3.de.

Since that is not enough, I engage in voluntary work for the Wurzel e.V., where I teach children from grade 5-12 in various fields of mathematics, e.g. set theory, graph theory and network analysis. Also, we have a cool card game, called Marjapussi, derived from the Finnish word for berry basket. Together with Samuel Leßmann, we developed an online version of the game, which is freely available. He did a great job implementing the game logic, which is a publicly available package for Python.

To learn about my other projects, visit my projects page.