Janko Thyson
Founder & CEO at KaosMaps
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJanko Thyson is a founder and Full Stack Data Scientist with 11+ years of experience blending hands-on R/Python engineering, machine learning, and product leadership to deliver pragmatic AI solutions. He has led end-to-end projects from system architecture and API development to forecasting models, dashboards (R Shiny/Tableau) and operational optimization for multinational clients. Comfortable wearing multiple organizational hats, he excels at decomposing complex problems, rapid prototyping, and translating analytical results into operationally relevant decisions. Janko’s work combines DataOps/DevOps discipline with an 80/20 pragmatism and a knack for spotting trends—e.g., color palette and search-term trend analyses using image recognition and social data. As CEO of KaosMaps and former founder of Rappster, he bridges creative software engineering with business fluency to scale analytics into products. He also experiments with Julia and Rust, signaling an ongoing curiosity for tooling that improves performance and maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomkaufmann, Economics, Diplomkaufmann, Economics at WFI - Ingolstadt School of ManagementThePowerMBA, MBA, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Innovation & Digital Transformation., ThePowerMBA, MBA, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Innovation & Digital Transformation. at thePower
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (141)
r10
dplyr10
unit-testing10
grammar10
object-oriented-programming9
shiny9
cli9
testing9
renv9
pair-programming9
data-manipulation9
rstudio9
r-package9
yaml8
quarto8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jankowtf/bumpr
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
rappster/reposr
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 18 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
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