Johannes Thönes
Staff Engineer at Atomic Innovation
Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Thönes is a Staff Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of experience stabilising and transforming revenue‑critical, legacy systems while leading organisations of ~30 engineers. He blends hands‑on technical excellence—TDD, automated test suites, CI/CD and fast feedback loops—with structured leadership development to scale capability, not just headcount. Skilled at rescuing teams after leadership exits and cost pressures, he drives pragmatic decisions that reduce time‑to‑market from months to hours and cut operating costs through targeted experiments. Johannes is particularly effective at turning brownfield complexity into safe, testable platforms and embedding clear playbooks for AI-assisted delivery that favour deterministic guardrails over token-heavy approaches. Based in Buxtehude, he balances a coaching mindset and devil’s-advocate rigor with triathlon training, reflecting his focus on sustainable performance and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Medical Informatics, Diplom, Medical Informatics at Heidelberg University
German, English, French
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Github Skills (54)
printing10
pdf-document10
javascript10
pdf10
pdf-files10
jspdf10
travis-ci10
pdfkit10
poppler10
react-pdf10
client-server10
pdf-generation10
pdf-manipulation10
pdfium10
pdfbox10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jthoenes/chapter-marks-conversion
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 5 issues in 4 years 2 months
jthoenes/dokuwiki2evernote
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Set of scripts to port my DokuWiki content to Evernote
Contributions:1 commit, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 day
tiddlywikiphpbookmarkletevernotedokuwiki
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