Jan Krüger
Hi, I'm Jan. Here's a (somewhat) condensed summary of who I am, what I know, what I do, and how to reach me.
- On the web
- Personal blog, music I've made
I'm also on GitHub.
I'm on Facebook and Twitter, too, but I don't actually do anything there... I'm just wasting space on their servers. - In the real world
- Ravelsberger Str. 11
52146 Würselen
Germany - Contact
- jk@jk.gs
- mobile
- +49-1577-4723429
- Jabber/XMPP
- jast@heapsort.de
- Skype
- mrjast
- Profile (w/ buzzwords)
- Education and experience:
- German and English
- analytic approach to problems based in critical rationalism
- effective learning and building reliable intuition
- professionally trained singer
- a lot of time at university
- communication and teaching
- 2016 – present: Senior software developer / operations at Userlike Live Chat
- 2012 – 2016: Software developer, Tier III support representative, auxiliary system administrator, trainer for customer IT staff at Modell Aachen GmbH
- 2010 – 2012: Student, artificial intelligence at Maastricht University (NL)
- 2006 – 2010: Student, knowledge engineering / computer science at Maastricht University (NL), graduated: BSc
- 2001 – 2006: Student, computer science at RWTH Aachen (DE)
- 1983: born
- Bonus section: computers
- This is what I know things about:
- computer science, data mining, machine learning, networks and protocols, software design, cryptography, compiler and language design, concurrency
- programming (mainly C, JavaScript, Python, POSIX shell, Rust, also in no meaningful order: 80x86/6510 Assembly, C++ with Qt, C# with .NET, Erlang, Haskell, Java, OCaml, Perl, Raku, PHP, Ruby...)
- web (functional design, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, ...)
- databases (PostgreSQL, SQLite, LMDB, Redis, ...)
- digging around in codebases for seemingly intractable problems
- Contributions to git and user support/community management in #git IRC channel (Freenode) since 2008; member of repo.or.cz admin/development team
- Helped develop testMaker, a tool for creating web-based self-assessments
- Contributor to various open source projects, including Foswiki