Jan Arends is a Full Stack Developer with eight years of experience building reliable, maintainable software for media, finance, and infrastructure contexts from Bonn, Germany. He has shipped backend-first solutions including database abstraction/federation at Directus and microservice analytics on AWS, and now develops architecture-monitoring software at Archwise Solutions. Comfortable across frontend and backend, his open-source Directus contributions span UI fixes, export enhancements and schema diff handling—highlighting practical improvements that bridge UX and data tooling. A former pentester and systems administrator, he brings a pragmatic security and operational mindset to designing maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:220 reviews, 1 commit, 73 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jan contributed to the Directus project by addressing and fixing bugs related to presets and related value displays. They implemented a "select all" option for the export functionality, enhancing data export capabilities. Furthermore, they added support for multipart/form-data in schema diffs and introduced types for a new abstract query, demonstrating a focus on backend and data management aspects of the project. The commits showcase involvement across both frontend and backend codebases, making the user's role full-stack.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years
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Jan Arends - Full Stack Developer at Archwise Solutions UG