Janis Altherr
Senior Full Stack Engineer at GitLab
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJanis Altherr is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Hamburg with nearly a decade of experience building scalable web platforms and shaping software architecture across startups and large enterprises. Currently responsible for GitLab Pages, he specializes in modern front-end stacks (Vue.js, Svelte), Python and Go backends, and Kubernetes-driven deployments, and has a track record of introducing GraphQL, FastAPI and CI/CD improvements at Apple. As a co-founder of products like Comsim.app and Campcrater he combines hands-on engineering with product strategy and UX sensibility, and his Comsim project uniquely blends AI tutoring with live-streaming for marine radio simulation. With an academic background in communication science, he thrives at the intersection of engineering, product management and user research, turning product visions into production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Kommunikationswissenschaft, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Kommunikationswissenschaft at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
English, German
Github Skills (65)
electricity10
parse10
yaml9
parser9
vuejs29
sustainability9
consumption9
server-side-rendering9
parsing9
climate-change9
browser-extension9
vue-component9
javascript8
electricity-prices8
ios8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Lobidu/gripple.js
Feb 2019 - Nov 2023
A minimal front-end framework for building component-based DOMs with Javascript.
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
Lobidu/mandybuhlmann.com
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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