Matthias Jahn
Web-Developer Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter at Peerigon GmbH
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Jahn is a seasoned web developer and managing partner with 13 years of experience building and running web-focused engineering teams from Augsburg, Germany. As a long-time leader at Peerigon GmbH, he blends hands-on full-stack development with company leadership, evolving from developer to Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter since 2015. His technical work includes practical open-source contributions—most notably enhancing the updtr tool to streamline npm updates, improve terminal UX, and add version-targeting and tests—showing a focus on developer productivity and reliability. With an academic background in applied computer science and business informatics, he bridges research-driven thinking and pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors and tooling that reduce maintenance pain while enabling teams to move faster.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Research on Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Applied Research on Computer Science at Hochschule Augsburg
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Github contributions (5)
peerigon/updtr
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Update outdated npm modules with zero pain™
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 40 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on enhancing and refactoring the `updtr` project, a tool for updating npm modules. Their contributions included optimizing terminal output, replacing visual output symbols for improved clarity, and refactoring the core logic. Furthermore, they implemented several tests to ensure the reliability of the module update process and adapted the tool to allow for specifying which version to update to, thus increasing the tool's functionality.
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peerigon/servus.js
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Servus as a Service (SaaS)
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 7 months
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