Jens Hausdorf is an IT-Security Consultant and Master's student with 11 years of hands-on experience blending DevSecOps, software supply-chain security, and pragmatic engineering. Based in Karlsruhe, he embeds security into agile development and cloud infrastructure, driving monitoring, analysis and ISMS-aligned controls at dmTECH/dm-drogerie markt. A versatile engineer, Jens contributes to both backend (PHP, performance micro-optimizations, language-server improvements) and frontend projects (VS Code icon theming, i18n), and has fixed subtle bugs in high-profile ecosystems such as the WoltLab core and Mozilla’s codebase. He built a multi-source vulnerability ingestion pipeline early in his career to shorten exposure windows across product teams, and has implemented audio/video and language-server features with unit tests in notable open-source repos. Known as “nerd by night,” he pairs curiosity about low-level formats (PNG, C++) with practical security tooling and developer-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels (Abitur / Allgemeine Hochschulreife) English Mathematics Political Social Studies, A-Levels (Abitur / Allgemeine Hochschulreife) English Mathematics Political Social Studies at Goethe-Gymnasium Gaggenau school
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Karlsruhe
Computer Science, Computer Science at DHBW Center for Advanced Studies
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 186 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributed to the audio clipping functionality within the PHP-FFmpeg library. They added features like clipping audio clips at specific start times and durations using the TimeCode class. Code changes involved creating an AudioClipFilter class, modifying the AudioFilters and Audio class, and also included writing unit tests. Further contributions involved adding video profile and level features.
Contributions:169 commits, 89 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributes to the visual aspect and file type icon definitions of the VS Code Icons extension. They implemented and modified file icon classes, integrating new file types and correcting existing associations within the icon theme. Their work involved editing both JavaScript and CSS files to customize the appearance of file icons. The contributions also included adding German language translations for the extension.
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Jens Hausdorf - IT-Security Consultant at dmTECH GmbH