Jan Henckel
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at KreativInstitut.OWL
Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Henckel is a full‑stack developer and technology leader with 12 years of experience who co-founded and leads technology at DIO Studios while holding a scientific staff position at KreativInstitut.OWL. He specializes in TypeScript-driven product development, building internal tools and client-facing digital products, and previously led development teams for clients like Universal Music Germany. As a coach and former Head Coach for web development courses, he blends hands-on engineering with curriculum design and mentoring. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular rust->wasm tool wasm-pack with CLI features and npm registry integrations, reflecting a knack for backend tooling and cross-ecosystem work. Based in Detmold, he pairs a media production BA with practical experience in digital imaging and video postproduction—an uncommon mix that informs his creative technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media production, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media production at TH OWL
German, English
Github Skills (6)
command-line-interface10
rust10
npm10
package-management10
command-line10
cli10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rustwasm/wasm-pack
Apr 2018 - May 2018
📦✨ your favorite rust -> wasm workflow tool!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the development of the `wasm-pack` tool, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their contributions included implementing new commands (login/adduser), refactoring existing commands and incorporating new features, and improving the tool's interactions with npm registries. The user's work involved modifying the command-line interface, integrating external dependencies like npm, and adding new flags/options to existing functionalities.
workflowrustworkflow-toolwebassemblynpm
neuefische/web-exercises
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Session exercises
Contributions:108 reviews, 73 commits, 106 PRs in 3 months
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