Jannis Köhl
Head Of Engineering at Tenzir
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJannis Köhl is a Head of Engineering based in Munich with eight years of experience building high-performance systems in modern C++, Rust, and Python. He progressed from hands-on software engineer to senior roles at Tenzir, now leading engineering for a stream-processing and query engine tailored to security use cases while still contributing to core C++ query internals. His background blends academic research—developing ML-driven laser control software at the Max Planck Institute—with practical product shipping and code review discipline. Well-grounded in algorithms and data structures, he combines deep systems expertise with strong mentorship and teaching experience from university tutoring. A pragmatic technologist, he often wears multiple hats across design, implementation, and operational concerns, bringing research-grade rigor to production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German, French, Italian
Github Skills (57)
rust-language10
rust-lang10
garbage-collection10
pcap10
suricata10
dataops10
zeek10
security10
netflow10
soc10
crate10
caf10
compiler10
rust10
incident-response10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tenzir/codemirror-lang-tql
Apr 2024 - Jul 2025
Tenzir Query Language package for CodeMirror
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
codemirrorquery-language
jachris/cook
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
🛠️ An Extensible, Dynamic, Fast and Cross-Platform Build System (2017)
Contributions:2 releases, 105 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 2 months
build-system
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