Dani Marouane works as a digital segment architect at the IT&IM department of Damen Shipyards Group, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2011 from the Moroccan Aviation international Academy as embedded systems engineer and 2014, from EMLyon Business School as a digitalization engineer. His main specialties are big data, real-time processing, analytics and IoT. He joined Damen Shipyards since 2015 and have been working on multiple innovation projects before designing and realizing the Damen Digital platform, implementing a DevOps structure with Automation and continuous delivery implementations among other BigData projects.

Damen Shipyards Group consists of 32 operating companies worldwide. The group originates from a single shipyard founded in Holland in 1927 and is active in ship newbuilding and repair as well as marine services. With an annual turnover of approximately 2.1 billion euros, Damen is the largest shipbuilding group in The Netherlands and one of the leading builders of workboats and fast craft worldwide. Damen focuses on construction of standardised proven designs and ongoing product development, offering our clients advantages such as optimized performances and reliability, short delivery times and low operational costs. Available designs include both commercial and military vessels, ranging from tugs, workboats, dredgers, buoy laying and offshore vessels, to cargo vessels, fast ferries, patrol boats, crew boats and other fast craft.