🇬🇧 About me

Hi, I’m Jan, a Software Developer from Germany.

Resumè §

• In 2003 I developed my first program in Basic after being given a laptop and a book about game-programming.
• 2008 I started a part-time job, where I developed some programs and created some UIs in Visual FoxPro.
• 2010 I began to study “Applied information technology” at the “Duale Hochschule”, where I alternated between work and study in intervals of about three months.
• 2013 I received by “Bachelor of Science” and started my first full-time job at UB-Software GmbH.
• In 2016 I got promoted to be the CTO.
• Since 2019 I’m one of three CEOs, the others being my father, who founded the company in 1991 and my younger brother.

Projects §

I’m currently participating in the following open-source projects:

• docspell
  A personal document organizer using OCR and AI to automatically get information from your files.
• restic
  A cross-platform, de-duplicating backup software written in Go.