Jan Küster
Research Software Engineer at University of Bremen
Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Küster is a research software engineer with 11 years of experience building educational and qualitative research tools at the University of Bremen. He blends hands-on back-end Meteor expertise with robust QA and CI practices—evident from contributions to Meteor core, Meteor-Community-Packages, Wekan and a CI-driven LaTeX CV templates repo. Jan focuses on reliable developer workflows and server-side robustness (file uploads, CLI improvements, test automation) while also championing edTech projects like OpenQDA and LEA. Based in Bremen, he pairs an MS in Digital Media with a pragmatic contributor mindset as a Meteor ambassador, often improving developer UX in widely used open-source tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Digital Media, Master of Science - MS, Digital Media at University of BremenAbitur, Abitur at Buchenberg Gymnasium Erfurt
German, English
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Github Skills (44)
unit-testing10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
testing10
cin10
bash10
mochajs10
latex10
file-upload10
nodejs10
meteor10
cli10
cv-template9
json9
html-template9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jankapunkt/latexcv
May 2016 - Oct 2022
:necktie: A collection of cv and resume templates written in LaTeX. Leave an issue if your language is not supported!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 160 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan's primary contribution centers around establishing and improving the testing and continuous integration infrastructure for the LaTeX CV repository. They added a Travis CI configuration and a test script to automatically build the PDF output, ensuring the templates function correctly. The user repeatedly merged the master branch into the CI setup branch, likely to incorporate new features and updates into the continuous integration process, ensuring that the tests would function with new versions of the template. Further improvements included the creation of a test suite, running tests across various template directories and test updates.
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Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-autoform
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
AutoForm is a Meteor package that adds UI components and helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events, and automatic reactive validation.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 97 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jan's commits primarily focus on refactoring and adding tests for the `meteor-autoform` package. They moved existing tests to use `meteortesting:mocha`, indicating a shift towards a more standardized testing framework. The user implemented tests for core utility functions, form preservation, and form data management within the package, demonstrating a focus on comprehensive testing of key features.
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