Jochen Hilgers
Senior Product Engineer at Dash0
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJochen Hilgers is a Senior Product Engineer based in Cologne with 11 years of experience building and leading high-impact software teams and products. He combines hands-on engineering—recently shipping a Go-based CLI for fuzzing accessibility—with management experience as a Senior Engineering Manager who delivered an autonomous AI test agent and tightened agile workflows to accelerate release cadence. Jochen has a proven track record in full-stack and architecture work across long-term industry projects, R&D prototyping, and nurturing technical talent from junior to managerial levels. He blends practical delivery focus with a research-minded approach (mentoring student theses and driving internal innovation), and holds a Master of Computer Science. Colleagues rely on him for measurable improvements in performance, scalability and team flow, and he’s comfortable moving between coding, product engineering and people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Operative Profession / Geprüfter IT Entwickler, Operative Profession / Geprüfter IT Entwickler at IHK KölnMaster of Computer Science MCSc Informatik, Master of Computer Science MCSc Informatik at Hochschule TrierFachinformatiker Anwendungsentwickler, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwickler at Georg-Simon-Ohm-Schule Köln
Github Skills (68)
go-modules10
adafruit10
testing10
beautify10
security10
arduino-library10
fuzzer10
animation10
clojure10
jvm10
pretty-print10
textinput10
cicd10
java10
fuzzing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jochil/scabov
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:78 commits, 21 pushes in 3 months
CodeIntelligenceTesting/cifuzz-gradle-plugin
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:17 reviews, 17 PRs, 31 pushes in 8 months
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