Jan Erkelens
Engineering Manager at SmarterDx
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJan Erkelens is an engineering manager and technology leader with 15 years of experience building cross-functional teams and shipping data-driven products at scale. Based in New York, he has led organizations of up to 30 engineers across software, data, and SRE, transforming delivery from monthly releases to continuous delivery and doubling sprint velocity. His background spans hands-on data engineering—building a 170TB lakehouse, real-time ingest pipelines, managed schema registries and brand-safety ML prototypes—to platform leadership at Disney Streaming and Capital One. He also contributes to open-source back-end tooling, adding access control and discriminated-schema support to a popular express-restify-mongoose project, reflecting deep practical knowledge of APIs and data access patterns. Pragmatic and delivery-focused, Jan blends product-minded organization design with strong technical craftsmanship to turn complex data problems into operational capabilities.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Enginnering, BS Computer Enginnering at University of Florida
Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
api-rest10
mongoose10
rest-api10
javascript10
nodejs10
backend10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
mongodb-database9
apidoc9
mongodb9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
florianholzapfel/express-restify-mongoose
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Easily restify mongoose databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `express-restify-mongoose` library. Their work involved adding features for setting default options, fixing a bug related to lean options, and implementing robust exclusion support, including handling discriminated schemas. They also added access control and permission systems to the library, providing more control over data access.
restifymongomongoosejsdatabasesnodejs
gigwell/elastica
May 2015 - Mar 2016
A flexible chaining API for ElasticSearch.
Contributions:35 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 10 months
elasticsearch-clientapielasticchainingelasticsearch
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