Tom Janson
DevOps Consultant at Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Federal Chancellor)
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Janson is a DevOps consultant with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, scalable infrastructure for cloud and on-prem environments, currently supporting the German Federal Chancellery. He has built and run Kubernetes and CI/CD platforms in highly regulated contexts—combining Kubespray/Helm/GitOps, Ansible, Prometheus/Grafana and Terraform—to accelerate product delivery and ensure operational compliance. Past roles include SRE work for a data-science platform at Bundesdruckerei and running infrastructure for a SaaS serving 1,400+ organizations, reflecting deep experience with high-availability databases and monitoring. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling from pydocstyle’s docstring checks to practical home-automation back-end features, showing attention to both developer ergonomics and device-level interoperability. Based in Aachen, he blends academic rigor from an RWTH Aachen CS master's background with pragmatic engineering that navigates vendors, regulators and secure deployments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
python10
nextjs10
homebrew-cask10
docstrings10
homebrew10
version-control10
linter10
nodejs10
software-packaging10
arduino10
home-automation10
testing9
file-management9
xhtml9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 80 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom's primary contribution focused on updating and maintaining various cask files within the Homebrew Cask repository. They regularly updated the versions of software packages, particularly Firefox ESR and related locale-specific versions, to the latest releases. This included modifying file URLs, SHA checksums, and updating locales, while also adding and updating other applications such as Keyboard Maestro, Jetbrains IDEs, and Android Studio.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
ni-c/heimcontrol.js
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Home-Automation with node.js and Raspberry PI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 22 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Arduino-based home automation system. They introduced support for 10-digit tricodes and custom on/off suffixes, crucial for compatibility with various home automation devices like the Elro AB440S. The user refactored the RC settings UI to enhance user experience. They implemented binary code support for sending commands to devices and updated the code to improve binary-to-decimal conversion.
raspberry-pinode-rednode-jsraspberryhome-automation
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