Johannes Degn
Cofounder at smalt
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Degn is a Berlin-based CTO and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering teams across marketplaces, B2B platforms, and consumer services. He co-founded and led tech at Lynk Kenya and later built Subledger, bringing firsthand insight into emerging-market product problems and payments/transactions at scale. Johannes combines hands-on backend engineering (notably Go API work for high-concurrency NFT marketplace flows) with leadership roles from tech lead to engineering manager and head of marketing technology. His background in econometrics and quantitative economics informs a data-driven approach to system design and growth experiments. Comfortable shifting between founding scrappiness and structured R&D, he repeatedly moves teams from prototyping to production-grade platforms. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who marries product intuition from emerging markets with rigorous technical delivery.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at University of KonstanzB.a. Government, B.a. Government at Reichman UniversityBachelor Economics, Bachelor Economics at University of MannheimAix-Marseille University
English, German, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Swahili
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Github Skills (76)
testing10
xero10
faker10
hubspot-api10
test-data10
wsgi9
facebook-graph-api9
rest9
api9
python9
loops9
http9
asgi9
rest-api9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
joidegn/pyxero
Jul 2017 - May 2020
Python API for accessing the REST API of the Xero accounting tool.
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
apiaccountingpythonxerorest
joidegn/FactorModels.jl
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
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