Jan Konopka
Managing Director at UFOM
Berlin, Germany
Summary
🤩
RockstarJan Konopka is a managing director based in Berlin with nine years of hands-on software engineering experience and a strong operational bent. He combines leadership at UFOM with active backend development contributions to the popular open-source grandnode eCommerce platform, focusing on .NET Core, MongoDB, and feature work like product reservations and article search. Comfortable across database and API layers, he pairs pragmatic engineering—writing unit tests and refining backend logic—with occasional frontend improvements to enhance user-facing functionality. His role suggests an ability to translate customer-facing requirements into reliable, tested features while steering company strategy. Colleagues would describe him as a technically engaged director who still enjoys committing code and improving platform resilience. A playful GitHub bio hint ("🎅") points to a personable, slightly unconventional leader who blends professionalism with approachability.
9 years of coding experience
English, German
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
asp-net10
netcore10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
mongodb10
ecommerce10
mongodb-database10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
grandnode/grandnode
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Open source, headless, multi-tenant eCommerce platform built with .NET Core, MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB, Vue.js.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 5 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on developing and testing features related to product reservations and article comments within the .NET Core and MongoDB based eCommerce platform. The commits include writing unit tests for product reservation functionality, as well as adding and modifying code related to knowledgebase categories and articles, suggesting a focus on the backend logic and related database interactions. The user's contributions extend to front end, including the introduction of a search bar and changes in the display of articles. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core functionality of the eCommerce platform.
tenantecommerceshopping-cartvueshop
jasieg/grandNodeApp2
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.