Jan Amann
Guest Lecturer at Self-employed
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Amann is a front-end engineer and designer with 11 years' experience building performant, usable web products and teaching React web applications as a guest lecturer. He is the creator and maintainer of next-intl, a widely used internationalization solution for Next.js App Router, and a hands-on contributor to prominent open-source projects like motion and react-apollo where he’s fixed tricky SSR and iOS drag/click edge cases. Based in Dornbirn, Austria, he runs a consultancy focused on user interface engineering, blending UX sensibility with practical React implementation. His work spans feature design, performance-focused refactors, and CI improvements, and he often surfaces non-obvious bugs—such as StrictMode/nested component interactions and subtle fetch-policy SSR issues—showing deep familiarity with library internals.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication & Knowledge Media, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication & Knowledge Media at FH HagenbergBrowser Rendering Optimization, Browser Rendering Optimization at UdacityHigh school certificate (Austrian Matura), Software Developement, Management & Economics, High school certificate (Austrian Matura), Software Developement, Management & Economics at HTL Dornbirn
German, English
Github Skills (30)
date-formatting10
github-ci10
javascript10
draft-js-plugins10
number-formatting10
rails-i18n10
react-ssr10
animation10
number-format10
typescript10
nextjs10
date-format10
wpgraphql10
cicd10
ember-i18n10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
amannn/action-semantic-pull-request
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
A GitHub Action that ensures that your PR title matches the Conventional Commits spec
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 104 reviews, 124 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline of the project. Their contributions include the addition of a pull request workflow, WIP support, and the implementation of status updates using GitHub Actions. They also worked on fixing errors and incorporating the necessary configurations for these workflows. The user's changes ensure the code is validated with respect to conventional commits before merging.
commitsconventionalmatchesspecconventional-commits
amannn/next-intl
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
🌐 Internationalization (i18n) for Next.js
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:317 reviews, 455 commits, 787 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the development of the `next-intl` library, focusing on enhancements and improvements related to internationalization features. They added new tests for number, date and rich text formatting. The user introduced functionality for supporting global formats, improved the API for handling raw messages and formatting. Their changes included enhancements to the library's core functionality, including adding support for Next.js 13 and handling time zones.
next-jsreacttranslationdate-formattinginternationalization
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