Jan Ebbing
Senior Software Engineer at DeepL
United Kingdom
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RockstarJan Ebbing is a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems, client libraries, and automated testing infrastructure. Currently on DeepL's Client Libraries & API team, he develops SDKs and collaborates with backend and ML teams to ship translation API features. His background spans high-scale automation work at Facebook—moving ID review from manual processes to ML-driven pipelines—and hands-on CI/test improvements in scientific grid software at CERN. As a founder and Entrepreneur in Residence, he combines product-minded customer discovery with pragmatic engineering, having built multiple MVPs and run pilot programs. An active contributor to DIRACGrid, he focuses on maintainability—refactoring code and hardening tests to prevent flaky or destructive test behavior. Colleagues know him for blending attention to code quality with a founder’s appetite for rapid iteration.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Spanish, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
python10
mocking10
grid9
grids9
distributed-computing9
workflow-management8
test-automation8
resource-management8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DIRACGrid/DIRAC
May 2016 - Jun 2016
DIRAC Grid
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on improving the codebase and test suite. They addressed code quality by removing deprecated `file()` usage and replaced it with `with open()`. They also refactored and fixed unit tests, especially within the `Test_XROOTStorage` module, to correctly mock dependencies and prevent unwanted file system modifications. This work demonstrates a focus on code maintainability and reliable testing.
griddiracdistributed-computinginterwareworkflow-management
JanEbbing/music-sync-adv
Jan 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
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