Jan Arnold
PLC Programmer at Corning Laser Technologies GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Arnold is a PLC programmer and software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building control systems and bespoke machine software, primarily using Beckhoff TwinCAT alongside C# and Python. Trained as a Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineer at TUM, he bridges deep process engineering knowledge with practical automation expertise—comfortable moving between thermal, fluid, and materials domains to rapidly onboard new industries. His background ranges from cryo-microscopy R&D at the Max Planck Institute to commercial machine automation, evidencing both experimental prototyping and production-grade software delivery. Jan’s autodidactic drive in IT leads him to pick best-fit technologies (WPF, Python tooling) and iterate independently on complex integrations. Based in Munich, he blends analytical rigor from academia with pragmatic engineering at companies like Böckstiegel, Corning Laser Technologies and The 4JET Group, making him adept at turning multidisciplinary requirements into reliable, maintainable control solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering at Technical University of Munich
German, English, French, Latin
Github Skills (96)
statsd10
postgresql10
grafana10
teamspeak10
monitoring10
graphite10
linux10
data-visualization10
database10
kubernetes10
observability10
sem10
mysql10
nvidia10
prometheus10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
coraxx/PlcVariableViewer
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
coraxx/netdata_nv_plugin
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
NetData plugin for Nvidia GPU stats
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 7 months
nvidianetdatagpustatsnvidia-gpu
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