Profile – Daniel Schoenland (Daniel Schönland)
Daniel Schoenland (* 1983), known in German as Daniel Schönland, grew up in Germany and Denmark. He wrote his first low-level security tool at age twelve—protecting his computer’s boot sector—and launched his first commercial IT practice at sixteen, long before “cybersecurity” became an industry category.
Over the past twenty-five years, he has built and secured critical infrastructure across both worlds, enterprise Microsoft and open-source Linux: from co-founding a carrier-grade business ISP and contributing to Microsoft’s first multi-tenancy cloud platform to advising executive boards, owner families, and major institutions.
01Contact
02Current
Founder & CEO of Identiqa—autonomous, predictive AI security for mid-market enterprises and critical infrastructure—and Founder & Publisher of derimeter, the independent cybersecurity platform for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
03Experience
2024 – Now
Leading Identiqa’s autonomous edge-defense architecture, distributed through regional IT and system-house partners, alongside establishing derimeter as the public incident ledger and cybersecurity platform for the DACH region.
2010 – 2024
Architected and integrated mission-critical voice, cloud, and security infrastructure on the Microsoft communications stack (now Microsoft Teams) for global industry leaders and institutions—including global pharmaceutical leader Bayer and Charité Berlin, one of the world’s leading university hospitals.
2008 – 2010
Contributed to building Microsoft’s first multi-tenancy hosting platform—laying the architectural foundation for modern multi-tenant Microsoft Cloud services.
2006 – 2011
Co-founded and built a specialized Business ISP in close integration with the Telefónica / O2 Germany carrier ecosystem. As CTO, led technical product development, the xDSL access platform, carrier-grade voice network, and core provisioning interfaces.
1999 – 2006
Started in software development and systems administration at age 16—managing 100+ networked systems running IBM’s OS/2 and developing custom enterprise and educational software.
04Technology & Domain Expertise
Cybersecurity & AI: Autonomous threat defense, AI security, European digital sovereignty, enterprise & mid-market architecture
Executive & Board Advisory: AI strategy, cyber resilience, and technical due diligence for executive boards, supervisory boards, and family-owned enterprises
Go-to-Market: Partner-led distribution through regional IT and system houses
Cloud & Open Source: Microsoft enterprise stack, multi-tenancy cloud platforms, and deep Linux / open-source systems engineering
Core Infrastructure: Carrier voice & data networks, data center architecture, co-locations, IP-Transit/Peering