Daniel Sum

CPTO · Chief Product & Technology Officer

Chief Product & Technology Officer and senior full stack engineer. External Tech Consultant for the European External Action Service (EU diplomatic service) on a top-secret project.

Bio

Daniel leads product and technology at Drimt and brings 15+ years of senior full stack engineering — customized web platforms, SaaS, ERP integrations, GraphQL and JAMstack — across clients like UNICEF, the National Lottery, Groupon, MINI, Engie, ING and TBWA Group. He co-founded the Brussels agency Cherry Pulp in 2013 and grew it to 18+ people before its acquisition by CBTW.

He currently serves as External Tech Consultant for the European External Action Service — the EU's diplomatic service — on a top-secret project, alongside ongoing Web Lead work for AI-powered platforms (GraphQL, Vue 3, TypeScript, BigQuery, GCP, Auth0, GPT).

At Drimt that operator background shapes the product philosophy: surface the right control at the right moment, keep evidence first-class, and let teams ship without losing weeks to spreadsheets. He partners closely with CISOs, DPOs and engineering leads to make NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 work feel like product work — not paperwork.

Outside Drimt he is President of the non-profit Co-Labs, supporting civic-tech projects including la Zinne (Brussels' local currency), the Transition Network and Ensemblesolidaires.be — winner of a Social Innovation Award.

Focus areas

Full stack engineering

Product leadership

Compliance UX

Risk workflows

Evidence & audit readiness

GraphQL / TypeScript / Vue / React

Cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS)

Experience

CPTO · Chief Product & Technology Officer

Drimt

Leading product and technology for the digital risk management platform.

External Tech Consultant

European External Action Service · EU diplomatic service

Top-secret project for the EU's diplomatic corps.

Web Lead (Freelance)

Wequity · Brussels (2023 – present)

AI-powered startup — GraphQL, Vue 3, TypeScript, BigQuery, Google Cloud, Auth0, ChatGPT.

Senior Full Stack (Freelance)

Aware · Brussels (2022 – 2023)

TypeScript, Next.js, Fastify, Effect-TS, Azure, MsSQL.

CTO & Co-Founder

Cherry Pulp · Brussels (2013 – sold to CBTW)

Led a 16-person team (Vue.js, Laravel). Best E-Commerce, Best Startup and Social Innovation Awards.

Senior Rich Media Developer

TBWA · Brussels (2011 – 2013)

Best Activation Campaign award (Bpost Marcolini Fast Track).

President

Co-Labs non-profit (2018 – present)

ING Society Award; civic-tech support for la Zinne, Transition Network, Ashoka Education, Ensemblesolidaires.be.

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