Staff Engineer
Hi, I'm Jan
Staff Engineer, Bitly
I'm a Staff Engineer at Bitly, working across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and frontend. Based in Germany, working remotely. In my free time, you'll probably find me on my bike or dialing in espresso.
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Senior Backend - Cloud Engineer
FullStack Engineer; later Senior Engineer (from 10/2019)
Working student, Web Development
R&D Frontend Intern — UI & Web Design
Education
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Media Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Media Technology
Projects
SimpleMQTT for Slack
Slack App that adds slash-commands to communicate with MQTT brokers. Slash-commands can be used to add brokers, targets and topics and to send messages.
MQTT Dashboard
Browser-based MQTT dashboard to connect to an MQTT broker. The dashboard lets you create widgets to send or consume messages. The project uses no frameworks and keeps all data in local storage.
Podcatcher.de
Podcatcher.de was a web application that let users subscribe to and listen to podcasts in the browser. We built the backend and crawler infrastructure in Node.js to fetch podcasts from RSS feeds, with an Angular.js frontend.
Faircut.net
Faircut.net was a platform for finding and booking haircuts in London. I planned and discussed new features with the client and implemented them as part of my work at ilmCon GmbH.