Jens Reimann
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Reimann is a Principal Software Engineer based in Munich with 20 years of experience building reliable cloud and IoT systems, currently focusing on software supply chain security at Red Hat. He is a polyglot engineer skilled in Rust, Java, and Go, and a prolific open-source contributor across prominent Eclipse projects and Rust ecosystems. Jens has deep expertise in Kubernetes-related tooling (notably contributions to the kube-rs client), OPC UA implementations (Eclipse Milo/Open62541), and industrial IoT stacks, combining backend development with DevOps and packaging work. His contributions often target low-level robustness—certificate handling, config loading, memory-leak fixes, and improved error handling—bringing production-hardened care to critical infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and tooling improvements that make distributed systems safer and easier to operate. Outside of work he channels his focus into open-source stewardship, contributing to both project code and build/releases rather than just surface-level features.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Gymnasium Weilheim i.OB
English, German, French
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-kura/kura
Jul 2016 - Feb 2022
Eclipse Kura™ is a versatile framework to supercharge your edge devices, streamlining the process of configuring your gateway, connecting sensors, and IoT devices to seamlessly collect, process, and send data to the cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 363 commits, 302 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributed to the Kura framework by fixing bugs and improving existing code. These commits address issues related to memory leaks, incorrect logging, and potential runtime exceptions within the web UI. They also include enhancements like improved error output and more robust internal component management. Furthermore, the user made refactoring changes that involved cleaning up code related to Java configuration properties.
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eclipse-milo/milo
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
Eclipse Milo™ - an open source implementation of OPC UA (IEC 62541).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 20 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jens contributed extensively to the Eclipse Milo™ project, focusing on enhancing the OPC UA SDK. Their work involved adding default methods to interfaces for reading and writing single values, streamlining API usability. They also addressed specific technical challenges, such as enabling the writing of any value to Variant nodes and implementing a test case for verification. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to the system through security enhancements, by implementing resource cleanup in certificate handling.
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