Hannes Küttner
Engineering Team Lead at Directus
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolHannes Küttner is an engineering team lead with a decade of software experience spanning machine learning, autonomous driving, full-stack and mobile development, and Linux kernel driver work. He combines academic rigor from Master's studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover and San José State University with hands-on delivery at companies like Meinberg and Directus. As part of a Formula Student team he helped build a driverless race car, implementing SLAM, trajectory planning and path-following—practical experience that informs his work on perception and control systems. At Directus he progressed from senior engineer to team lead while contributing front-end improvements and iconography migrations to a major open-source headless CMS. Hannes is comfortable bridging research and production, moving from prototyping ML and CV algorithms to shipping polished UIs and backend features. Based in Hanover, he brings a rare mix of embedded systems depth and modern web UI craftsmanship, plus a habit of fixing subtle front-end correctness issues in community projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at Paderborn UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at San José State UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover
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Github Skills (35)
directus10
javascript10
component-design10
ui-components10
typescript10
ui-design10
material-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types10
infographics10
netlify-cms10
typescripts10
d3js10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:294 reviews, 199 PRs, 492 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Hannes's commits primarily focus on migrating to Material Symbols, which involved replacing existing icon components with the new Material Symbols and updating relevant code across multiple files. The user also fixed lint issues, updated icon names, and replaced outline icons, indicating a focus on improving the visual presentation and maintaining code quality. Furthermore, the user made several UI adjustments, including fixing hover colors and centering, showcasing front-end development tasks within the Directus project.
cmsno-codecollaborationintuitivevue
susielu/d3-legend
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
A reusable d3 legend component.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Hannes primarily focused on fixing and improving the d3-legend component. They addressed issues related to color legend shape merging and text selection within the component. The commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring correct indices and functionality of the legend. Furthermore, the user corrected a missing Grunt run configuration.
reactlegendreusabled3d3-legend
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