Hannes Dohrn
Software Engineering Manager at Pdftools
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHannes Dohrn is a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and product-driven development. He progressed from a long tenure as a scientific assistant at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg into startup leadership as CTO and co-founder of EDITIVE, and now leads engineering at Pdftools. Hannes brings deep technical chops in Java, JavaScript and cloud-based solutions while retaining a researcher’s rigor for reproducible systems and clear documentation. He has experience in contract engineering for product teams (Smallpdf), giving him a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach to tooling and integrations. Based in Erlangen, he combines academic credibility with hands-on startup execution, often translating complex research concepts into customer-ready features. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful technical leader who values maintainability and measurable impact.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
German, English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (68)
mediawiki10
parser10
nas10
wikitext10
cifs10
openmediavault10
debian9
debian-linux9
rating9
daap9
administrate9
photo9
maven-plugin9
modular-design9
gradle-plugin9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hannesd/omv-zfs-ras-nas
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
sweble/hddiff
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.