Thomas Jansen
Head Of Engineering at doinstruct
Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Jansen is a Head of Engineering and product-minded technologist with 11+ years of experience building and scaling development organisations across startups and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering and solution architecture with leadership roles at companies like SAP, Toptal, and multiple startups, currently guiding engineering at doinstruct. Known for improving developer productivity and CI/CD ecosystems, he has driven large-scale tooling rollouts for 20,000+ developers and published a patent on defect localization. Thomas is an active contributor to open-source tooling—adding revision-tracking features to the popular docx JS/TS library—and prioritises exceptional UX while mentoring teams to grow. He brings a pragmatic blend of product strategy, technical depth, and operational rigour rooted in a CS master’s from Universität des Saarlandes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English
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Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
docx10
document-generation10
typescript-types10
unit-testing9
browser6
angular6
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dolanmiu/docx
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `docx` library, with a focus on change tracking features within the document generation process. They implemented `InsertedTextRun` and `DeletedTextRun` components, enabling the tracking of revisions. Further, they added unit tests to validate the settings related to revision tracking. Additionally, the user introduced style changes support within revision tracking and improved formatting within the code.
docxexpressmicrosoftvuejsbrowser
thojansen/issue-export
Sep 2015 - May 2019
GitHub issue search and export
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
github-issuesearchexport
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