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Helmut Januschka

Head of Engineering @krone.at • Open Source Contributor

25+ years experience Currently @krone.at Vienna, Austria
About

I work as Head of Engineering at krone.at, focusing on engineering management, technical strategy, and system reliability. My background spans 25+ years across various technology domains.

I contribute to open source projects including Chromium, LLVM, PDFium, and Fastlane. Areas of interest include system performance, developer tooling, and infrastructure automation.

Current Roles

👔 Head of Engineering @krone.at
🏢 CEO & CTO @Captcha.eu
🌐 Chromium Committer
🛠️ Breaking browsers with C++
Experience & Focus

Engineering Leadership

Leading technical vision and engineering teams at scale. Experience building and maintaining systems that serve millions of users.

System Architecture

25+ years across the full technology stack - from low-level system programming to distributed cloud architectures.

Open Source Philosophy

Active contributor to major projects. Building tools that make developers more productive.

Entrepreneurship

Founded and leading Captcha.eu - a GDPR-compliant bot protection service hosted in Austria. Serves clients including ÖBB, Bauer Media Group, and E.ON with privacy-first, accessible web security solutions.

Current Stack @krone.at
• Multi-language web applications
• Kubernetes container orchestration
• Varnish + CDN for caching & optimization
• Legacy print CMS to digital publishing migration
• In-house mobile app development teams
• TV broadcast technology integration
• Real-time content delivery pipelines
• High-availability database clusters
• CI/CD & infrastructure automation
Open Source Contributions

Chromium

Major contributor to Google's open-source web browser project. Led modernization efforts including StringPiece to std::string_view migration and GoogleTest naming convention improvements across multiple modules.

LLVM Project

Enhanced clang-tidy modernization tools by implementing pattern detection for substr() operations that can be replaced with C++20 starts_with() method, improving code readability and performance.

Fastlane

Key contributor to iOS and Android deployment automation tool. Enhanced Spaceship module for App Store Connect integration, improved terminal responsiveness, and fixed critical build system compatibility issues.

Composer

Contributed to PHP's dependency manager. Implemented GitLab API v4 pagination support for repository discovery and improved tag/branch collection functionality for better package resolution.

VibeTunnel

Browser-based terminal multiplexer for frictionless remote access to macOS terminals. Designed for "vibe coding" - maintaining developer flow from anywhere. Core contributor to this innovative tool for monitoring AI agents and remote development.

Get In Touch

I'm always interested in discussing new projects, opportunities, or just chatting about technology.

Online

GitHub: hjanuschka
LinkedIn: in/hjanuschka
Twitter: @hjanuschka

Direct

Location: Vienna, Austria
Timezone: UTC+1
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