Jan Scheer
Botschafter at German Embassy Tallinn
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolJan Scheer is a career diplomat and legal-trained senior foreign service officer with nine years counted here among many more years of public service, now serving as Germany’s Ambassador in Tallinn after leading a policy division at the Federal Foreign Office. His trajectory spans high-responsibility posts—from Deputy Head of Mission in Bangkok to senior roles in the Minister’s Office and as private secretary to the State Secretary—reflecting deep expertise in multilateral coordination and embassy leadership. Educated in law at Universität Passau and the Oberlandesgericht München, he brings a legalist approach to complex diplomatic negotiations and institutional governance. Based in Estonia, he combines operational embassy management with strategic policy-making, and is known for navigating both bilateral and G-level multilateral processes. An interesting detail: his early career included stewarding G8/G20 dossiers, giving him rare, hands-on experience with global summit diplomacy that underpins his current ambassadorial role.
9 years of coding experience
Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften, Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften at Oberlandesgericht MünchenErstes Juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften, Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften at Universität Passau
Github Skills (128)
vala10
python10
network-analysis10
frida10
bash10
filesystem-events10
instrumentation10
security10
to-do10
vim10
coreutils10
file-tree10
command-line-tool10
javascript10
oh-my-zsh10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jhscheer/coreutils
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Contributions:310 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 5 months
rustlinuxgnucoreutilscross-platform
jhscheer/r2wars
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Corewars but within r2
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
rustcorewars
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