Jan Hančič
Principal Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJan Hančič is a Principal Engineer based in London with 15 years of experience building high-performance web systems and leading engineering teams. He blends deep backend expertise in PHP, MySQL, Redis and caching with front-end performance and UX sensibilities, often squeezing extra efficiency from both SQL queries and browser rendering. At Thought Machine he progressed from Software Engineer to Principal Engineer and has a track record of technical leadership, product ownership and hands-on optimization dating back to CTO and lead developer roles. Jan treats daily learning as a habit, constantly exploring new tools and profiling techniques to incrementally improve systems and workflows. He’s comfortable bridging product, design and ops—having built products from PSD to production and managed external sysadmin teams—bringing both strategic direction and practical, performance-first engineering.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at University of Ljubljanahigh school graduate general, high school graduate general at Šolski center rudolfa maistra
Slovenian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (198)
please-build10
font-face10
declarative10
extensible10
javascript10
jquery10
constructor10
internationalization10
editor10
single-page10
localization10
front-end-development10
html10
monorepo10
css-position10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
janhancic/please
Jan 2017 - Feb 2024
High-performance extensible build system for reproducible builds.
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 2 months
cppreproducible-buildsinfinibandbuildsreproducible
janhancic/hn-favourite-users
Nov 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 11 months
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