VolkerΒ Janz
Senior Developer Advocate
Temecula, California, United States
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Top SchoolVolker Janz is a Senior Developer Advocate and seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling data platforms that process billions of daily events. Based in California after relocating from Germany, he now empowers the global data community at Astronomer by evangelizing Apache Airflow, DataOps best practices, and production-ready data orchestration patterns. His background at InnoGames spans founding the data engineering team, migrating complex ETL to Airflow, and operating streaming and batch systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop) tied directly to business outcomes. Volker blends hands-on architecture and coding with a talent for teachingβhe speaks internationally, writes technical content, and mentors engineers. Heβs also pushed into AI-driven tooling, winning the 2024 Google AI Hackathon and building internal RAG systems, reflecting a practical focus on reliable, observable data foundations for future AI. Outside work heβs a proud dad, gamer and gym enthusiast, which keeps his curiosity and energy high.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Business Informatics, Master of Science (MSc) Business Informatics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
sql9
linux8
visualizations7
windows7
flink-streaming7
raycast7
elasticsearch6
observability6
elastic6
kibana6
java4
kafka3
stream-processing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vojay-dev/flapai
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:61 commits, 25 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 7 months
vojay-dev/pypong
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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