Hannes Dohrn
Software Engineering Manager at Pdftools
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHannes Dohrn is a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and product-driven development. He progressed from a long tenure as a scientific assistant at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg into startup leadership as CTO and co-founder of EDITIVE, and now leads engineering at Pdftools. Hannes brings deep technical chops in Java, JavaScript and cloud-based solutions while retaining a researcher’s rigor for reproducible systems and clear documentation. He has experience in contract engineering for product teams (Smallpdf), giving him a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach to tooling and integrations. Based in Erlangen, he combines academic credibility with hands-on startup execution, often translating complex research concepts into customer-ready features. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful technical leader who values maintainability and measurable impact.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
German, English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (54)
mediawiki10
parser10
wikitext10
nas10
openmediavault10
java9
debian9
maven-plugin9
gradle9
debian-linux9
gradle-plugin9
maven9
react8
gatsby7
javalin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sweble/hddiff
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years
sweble/sweble-wikitext
May 2011 - Sep 2018
The Sweble Wikitext Components module provides a parser for MediaWiki's wikitext and an engine trying to emulate the behavior of a MediaWiki.
Contributions:815 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 6 months
mediawikiparserwikitext
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