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Jakob Janning

Engineer with a computer science background and a focus on mechanical design. I build embedded systems, IoT prototypes, and CAD-driven hardware — from medical device connectivity to Formula Student race cars.

B.Eng. Energy & Environmental Engineering Hochschule Düsseldorf Software Engineer E-Traxx Düsseldorf CAD Design O'Bosso e.V. Developer & Designer NetFreaks

Selected Projects

Formula Student – Telemetry & VCU

Software engineer on the E-Traxx Formula Student team: RTOS integration and new embedded architecture for race-car hardware, plus vehicle control unit development with Simulink and dSpace — sensor integration, telemetry pipelines, and real-time race analysis.

C++PythonRTOSSimulinkdSpaceGit

O'Bosso – Clay Brick Press

A self-built machine designed to produce mud bricks faster and more precisely for sustainable construction in rural Cameroon. CAD design, metalworking, and field testing.

CADOnshapeMetalworking

Emergent Garden

An interactive playground for emergent systems: cellular automata, Voronoi diagrams, and 3D simulations. My love letter to emergence in computer science and mathematics.

Emergent SystemsCanvas APIThree.jsd3-delaunay

Saraswati

Self-hosted personal knowledge base: ingest voice memos, transcribe and structure with local LLMs, index in Qdrant, and query through a RAG chat interface.

PythonFastAPIQdrantfaster-whisperSQLite

Technical Arsenal