Jens Mönig
Research Expert at UC Berkeley
Gäufelden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Mönig is a research expert at SAP with 13 years of experience blending software engineering, legal expertise, and human-centered communications design. A lawyer-turned-programmer, he brings deep knowledge of IT and corporate law alongside hands-on experience with dynamic languages—particularly Smalltalk—and visual programming systems. He co-developed BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks) with Brian Harvey for UC Berkeley’s “The Beauty and Joy of Computing” course and contributed to the Scratch project at MIT Media Lab, reflecting a sustained commitment to educational computing. Jens has worked across industry and academia, from IBM and MioSoft to unpaid research consulting, demonstrating versatility in product, research, and teaching contexts. Based in Gäufelden, Germany, he often operates at the intersection of legal clarity and technical creativity, making complex systems more approachable and auditable. An unusual combination of courtroom training and visual language design gives him a pragmatic, user-focused perspective on software research and policy.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
1. juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften, 1. juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften at University of TübingenVan Wyck Junior High School2. juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften, 2. juristisches Staatsexamen, Rechtswissenschaften at Land Baden-WürttembergAbitur, Abitur at Schickhardt-Gymnasium, Herrenberg
English, French
Github Skills (20)
programming-language10
snap10
visual10
blocks10
visual-programming-language10
pygame8
educational-technology7
backend6
3d6
python6
embroidery5
turtle-graphics5
vector-graphics5
virtual-machine4
visual-programming4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmoenig/Snap
Mar 2013 - Jan 2023
a visual programming language inspired by Scratch
Contributions:240 releases, 27 reviews, 4971 commits in 10 years
visual-programming-languagesnapprogramming-languagevisualbjc
jmoenig/morphic.py
Sep 2013 - Nov 2016
a lively GUI for Python based on PyGame
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
pygamepython
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