Janus Nielsen
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Horsens, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolJanus Nielsen is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 17 years of experience building highly distributed web, desktop, and mobile systems, currently driving technical work at Uber while co-running Partisia. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture — from front-end and back-end development to CI/CD and cloud provisioning — with deep expertise in IT security, cryptography, and secure multiparty computation. Janus has led commercial and research projects across diverse budgets (including >€1M), acted as tech lead on large distributed applications, and designed security-first architectures for startups and research labs. A serial entrepreneur and hobbyist iOS developer, one of his apps placed in the Danish App Awards top ten, reflecting his product instincts beyond core infrastructure. His background (MSc and PhD-level computer science) and experience bridging research and production make him adept at turning advanced security research into practical, auditable systems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Aarhus University
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (37)
integrate10
grizzly10
beancount9
credentials9
privacy-preserving8
spring-data8
programming-language8
golang8
java7
security7
spring-boot7
go7
jersey7
spring7
calendar-view6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kljensen/viff
Mar 2009 - Sep 2010
Contributions:182 commits in 1 year 6 months
amiller/viff
Mar 2009 - Sep 2010
Contributions:182 commits in 1 year 6 months
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