Jan Guth is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native automotive software and turning prototypes into production-grade systems. He has led platform transitions from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes and migrated on-prem bare-metal deployments to Amazon EKS and Azure AKS, while designing custom CI solutions using Kubernetes and GitHub Actions. As CTO of Thingylabs and CEO of two companies, he pairs executive leadership with day-to-day engineering, shipping MVPs and scaling them into reliable services. An active full-stack open-source contributor, he has tackled both frontend and backend challenges—such as modernizing the Hexo Admin interface—and focuses on automation to simplify colleagues’ lives. Based in the Stuttgart region, he blends practical infrastructure craftsmanship with entrepreneurial drive, often favoring mechanization over manual toil.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kaufmännische Schule 1 Außenstelle Süd Stuttgart
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the Hexo Admin interface, focusing on both backend and frontend aspects. They migrated the project to use Hexo API 3.x, modifying core files such as `api.js`, `update.js`, and `index.js`. The commits show work on creating, updating, and deleting posts and pages, as well as improvements to the user interface. They also addressed circular JSON issues.
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Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
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Jan Guth - Chief Technology Officer at Lanišče d.o.o.