Summary
Janusch Jacoby is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building ML/AI products across startups, scale-ups and large corporations. He combines hands-on engineering with product and design-thinking expertise, taking 0→1 projects from ambiguous discovery through implementation and customer deployment. He has led cross-functional teams as a tech lead and PM, and as a founding engineer delivered an OpenAI-backed LLM voicebot that outperformed human agents in conversion and compliance. His work spans backend systems, event-driven ETL at scale (~60M records), CI/CD and agentic systems, with a strong emphasis on clean, maintainable code and rapid iteration. Pragmatic and outcome-focused, he raises engineering capacity through architecture, tooling and hiring recommendations. A former founder who raised seed funding, he brings entrepreneurial rigor and a bias for measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HPI School of Design Thinking Basic & Advanced Track Design Thinking, HPI School of Design Thinking Basic & Advanced Track Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner Institute