Johannes Kaufmann is a Berlin-based engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently serving as Team Lead at Kombo. He combines hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by his html-to-markdown open-source project that handles entire websites and extensible plugins—with proven startup experience as Bling.de’s first backend engineer, scaling the product from pre-seed to Series A. Johannes has a track record of shaping engineering conventions, hiring and mentoring teams, and shipping core features in fast-moving environments. An alumnus of CODE University, he pairs pragmatic system design with a penchant for tooling that makes developer workflows and content transformation more reliable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at CODE University of Applied Sciences
⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 8 reviews, 84 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily focused on implementing features for the `html-to-markdown` project, contributing significantly to the initial version. Their work included implementing core functionalities such as converting HTML elements to Markdown, including lists, images, links, blockquotes, and tables. The user also worked on the codebase's structure and added features like plugins for youtube and frontmatter. Further contributions include bug fixes, code improvements, and adding the go.mod file.
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