Jannik Hoffjann
Senior Staff Engineer at DeepL
Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJannik Hoffjann is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building data platforms and analytics systems, currently leading platform efforts at DeepL from Detmold, Germany. He progressed through technical and leadership roles—Senior Data Engineer to Track Lead and now Senior Staff—demonstrating hands-on delivery and scaling of data infrastructure in a fast-moving ML/translation product environment. Comfortable starting new initiatives, he blends practical engineering with team leadership to turn ambiguous problems into robust, production-ready solutions. His academic background in Information Systems (MSc, BSc) and a semester abroad in Finland reflect a strong foundation in both theory and international collaboration. Colleagues know him for finding clever, pragmatic solutions and for a dry sense of humor about coding—“I code. It's tremendous.”
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems at University of MünsterBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Systems at Universität OsnabrückSemester Abroad Information Systems, Semester Abroad Information Systems at University of Jyväskylä
German, English
Github Skills (101)
maven10
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
sql10
ai10
rust10
database10
analytics10
clickhouse10
keyboard9
big-data9
computer-vision9
python9
olap9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hfjn/blog
Dec 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
real-digital/pyconnect
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
A Python implementation of "Kafka Connect"-like functionality that uses plain AvroConsumer/-Producers to make it easier to develop Kafka connect applications.
Contributions:1 review, 51 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
sinkpythonpython-implementationproducersplain
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