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.
8 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 (59)
garbage-collection10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
data-driven10
pii10
pcap10
suricata10
dataops10
zeek10
standard-library10
security10
netflow10
soc10
crate10
data-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jachris/cook
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 105 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 2 months
extensiblebuild-systembuild-toolcross-platform
jachris/rust
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Contributions:4 PRs, 60 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
rustproc-macrorustlangupstreamreliable
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