Summary
Jan Schenk is a Senior Engineering Community Manager with over 15 years of experience cultivating developer relationships across academia, startups, and enterprises, currently leading community strategy for E.ON Digital Technology’s cloud-first transformation. He brings a unique blend of DevOps, web app, and program management expertise honed at Microsoft and Postman, where he built an Open Source Program Office and developer relations programs that lowered barriers to upstream contribution. Passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, Jan advocates for marginalized voices and embeds cultural improvements into product and community strategies. Based in Munich, he pairs hands-on technical fluency with event and program delivery skills to scale internal and outbound impact—an approach reinforced by an unusual detour as a sous chef, which sharpened his operational leadership and people-first mindset.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Abitur, English, Economics, Biology, Math, Abitur, English, Economics, Biology, Math at Gisela Gymnasium München
Swedish, German, English