Jan Jannek
Managing Director at Pixl8 GmbH
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Jannek is a seasoned software architect and Managing Director based in Essen, Germany, with 11 years of professional experience building and guiding large, complex enterprise applications across web, ColdFusion, Java, and relational databases. He blends hands-on development and system design with leadership from founding and running software firms (Pixl8, finally42) to long-term consultancy engagements, focusing on architecture, product development, and team enablement. His background includes deep experience in legacy-modernization, database-driven test and certification systems, and Atlassian-powered delivery workflows, making him adept at stabilizing and scaling mission-critical platforms. Pragmatic and client-focused, he frequently moves between coding, troubleshooting, and strategic advising—an engineer who still rolls up his sleeves while running companies.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science at Westfälische HochschuleMax-Planck Gymnasium GelsenkirchenIT specialist, Computer Software Engineering, IT specialist, Computer Software Engineering at Berufskolleg Witten
German, English, French
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Github Skills (32)
admin10
cfml10
lucee10
php10
templating10
rapid10
coldfusion10
cms9
content-management-system9
content-management9
rest-api8
api8
rest8
sql6
laravel6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jjannek/Preside-CMS
Nov 2015 - Feb 2025
PresideCMS is an open source CMS for the Lucee Server built on the ColdBox MVC Framework. It is developed and maintained by Pixl8 Interactive.
Contributions:164 pushes, 56 branches, 85 tags in 9 years 4 months
cmsphpcfmllucee-servercoldbox
pixl8/preside-ext-crm
May 2017 - Mar 2019
CRM extension for the Preside platform
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
laravelphpcrm
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