Jan Thurau
VP Engineering at Codio Impact
Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Thurau is a seasoned engineering executive and builder with 12+ years of hands-on and leadership experience scaling teams from zero to 30+ engineers and steering technology strategy across startups and established platforms. He blends deep technical chops—TypeScript, distributed systems, backend and DevOps on AWS and bare metal—with executive experience as CTO/VP driving platform modernizations, replacing legacy systems, and improving delivery velocity in regulated, high-availability environments. A pragmatic leader who still ships code, Jan is a core maintainer of Tiptap (the leading rich-text editor framework with millions of monthly downloads) and owns its real-time collaboration stack, contributing both front-end and back-end work to collaborative CRDT systems. He has a track record of supporting VC-backed growth through Series B, owning technical due diligence, and stepping into marketing or underperforming teams to restore focus and delivery. Fluent in German and English, he currently focuses on product-first organizations where engineering quality and execution speed are strategic advantages.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Expert, Software Development, Computer Science Expert, Software Development at IHK Hamburg
German, English
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Github Skills (26)
editors10
javascript10
rich-text10
redis10
typescript10
websocket10
yjs10
editor10
crdt10
websockets-client10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
websocket-client10
collaboration10
client-websocket10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ueberdosis/hocuspocus
May 2022 - Mar 2023
The CRDT Yjs WebSocket backend for conflict-free real-time collaboration in your app.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 122 reviews, 115 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on enhancing the `extension-redis` functionality for the `hocuspocus` project, enabling real-time collaboration features. Their contributions included implementing the necessary logic to watch for Yjs document changes, notify other instances, and resolve sync issues. Furthermore, they improved the codebase by addressing memory leaks and garbage collection configuration, improving overall stability and performance. Additionally, they addressed test failures in the extension-redis tests.
realtimeslatejswebsocketsprosemirrorjavascript
ueberdosis/tiptap
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 1 commit, 24 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the "tiptap" repository, a rich text editor framework. Their work involved implementing collaborative editing features, as seen in the "TiptapCollab" commits, integrating collaborative editing providers. The user also added React examples and implemented new features related to Lexical integration. The user demonstrates proficiency in Vue, React, and Svelte by adapting existing components or implementing new ones within each framework, and updating tests accordingly.
jsrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrenderless-components
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