Jannis Rautenstrauch
PHD Student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJannis Rautenstrauch is a web security-focused PhD candidate and research engineer with eight years of combined academic and industry experience across Germany and the UK. Currently at CISPA, he bridges rigorous security research with practical software development, having held roles from research scholar at Max Planck to a software engineering stint at AWS. His background in cognitive science and computer science gives him a keen eye for human-centric vulnerabilities and usable security solutions. Jannis contributes to open-source tooling and emphasizes reproducible research and better software as a route to stronger security outcomes. He is comfortable moving between prototype research, publication, and production code, making him effective at translating academic findings into deployable systems. Based in Potsdam, he combines deep technical rigor with a pragmatic mindset that favors auditable, well-engineered software.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesBachelor of Science - BS Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (184)
e2e-testing10
testing10
http10
proxy10
websocket10
automation10
web-development10
web-testing10
fundamentals10
web-platform10
javascript10
webdriver10
safari10
chromium10
dotnet10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
magpie-ea/magpie-departure-point
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Start here, if you want to create your own experiment with _magpie.
Contributions:33 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
magpiestart-here
JannisBush/wpt
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
web-platformtestingsuitesspecsspec
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