Joel Hermanns
CTO at Pluz
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJoel Hermanns is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building and scaling software-driven ventures from Aachen, Germany. He co-founded and led gridX as CTO, later transitioning into venture building with Utopian Founders to create AI-native companies and rebuild legacy businesses using an AI operating system. Joel combines hands-on engineering—developing automated testing toolchains and special projects—with strategic product and team leadership across startups and research settings. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen and is known for turning complex, multidisciplinary requirements into practical, production-ready systems that run on clusters and supercomputers.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
grafana10
osquery10
terraform10
infrastructure10
servant10
declarative10
elasticsearch10
terraform-module10
monitoring10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
hackage10
kubernetes-deployment10
cabal10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jhedev/django-elm
May 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years
grid-x/aws-auto-snapshot
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Tooling for automatically creating snapshots for AWS EBS Volumes and AWS Lightsail instances
Contributions:47 commits, 26 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years
aws-ebsinstancestoolingvolumessnapshots
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