janz.cloud

Jonas Janz

Strategic AI partner for executives · Hamburg, Germany · remote

Strategic AI partner for executives. Chairman of the Board, DOAG e.V. (~6,000-member tech-user organization), platform specialist at Red Hat, enterprise-integration roots at Lufthansa, ~50 merged upstream PRs. Founder of janz.cloud (founded 2026, in build): AI agents for architectural and administrative work, built on Claude, frontier models with data privacy by design. Hamburg, remote. German native, English fluent.

Now

  • May 2026–nowPlatform Specialist, Red HatOpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization platform architecture
  • Feb 2026–nowChairman of the Board, DOAG e.V.Tech-user organization, ~6,000 members; voluntary
  • 2026Founder, janz.cloudEarly-stage venture, in build

Board & community

  • ~6,000DOAG membersEnterprises, public sector, developer community
  • EventsDOAG Conference + Exhibition, DevLand, CloudLandExecutive sponsor and co-organizer; DevLand 2027 in preparation
  • BeforeDOAG topic lead, Cloud & Container Technologies
  • NetworksBITMi · CIONET · IT Executive Club
  • StageSpeaker and moderator at CloudLand and DevLandOrganized DevLand’s invite-only executive track · DevFest Hamburg 2022 · OpenShift Anwendertreffen

Career

  • 2020–2026Red Hat: Solution Architect → Strategic Account Manager → Cloud Growth LeadRegularly exceeded sales targets
  • 2014–2020Lufthansa: Consultant → Project Lead Information SystemsLed a team of 12 cloud engineers building a global development platform
  • 2013–2014Game design and app development

Education

  • 2015Bachelor’s degree, HAW Hamburg

Open source

Venture

  • janz.cloudStrategic AI partnership · Architecture agents · Administrative agentsFrontier models like Claude, with data privacy by design. Automate execution, keep human sign-off.

Contact

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Jonas Janz · Hamburg

Strategic AI partner for executives.

Board chairman. Enterprise-architecture foundation. Cloud-native builder.

Get in touch

I sit where the board meets the platform. I chair the board of a 6,000-strong tech-user organization, I’ve architected systems at enterprise scale, and I still build what I advise on.

Now I’m turning that into janz.cloud: AI agents that take on architectural and administrative work, while humans keep the signature.

  • ~6,000Members in the tech-user organization I chair
  • 12+ yrsFrom enterprise systems to AI agents
  • Both sidesBoardroom and engine room
  • 2026janz.cloud founded

Chairman of the Board · DOAG e.V.

Chairman of the Board. Building Germany’s tech network.

I chair the board of DOAG e.V., one of Germany’s largest independent organizations run by and for technology users: about 6,000 members across enterprises, the public sector and the developer community.

My mandate is the network: connecting the people who run Germany’s technology, keeping the exchange vendor-independent, and opening it to new technology areas and the next generation of developers.

  • ChairmanBoard of DOAG e.V.Strategy and governance of a ~6,000-member tech-user organization
  • NetworksBITMi · CIONET · IT Executive ClubExecutive networks across German IT
  • StagesSpeaker and moderator at CloudLand and DevLandOrganized DevLand’s invite-only executive track
  • EventsWhere the network meetsDOAG Conference + Exhibition (Nuremberg), DevLand (Europa-Park Rust), CloudLand (Heide Park Soltau)

Origins

It started with pixels.

I started out designing games and building apps. The handle PixelJonas comes from that era: it was my name on the Pixelburg Podcast. And it’s still how I look at systems.

Every system is a game: mechanics, feedback loops, and players who will find the exploit before you do. Design for them, and the architecture follows.

Lufthansa · 2014–2020

Where reliability isn’t optional.

Aviation taught me enterprise scale. At Lufthansa I grew from my thesis to leading a team of 12 cloud engineers building a global development platform.

Integration is where architecture gets honest: every interface is a promise someone else depends on.

  • TeamLed 12 cloud engineersBuilding a global development platform
  • ScaleEnterprise integration in a safety-critical industry
  • GrowthThesis to project lead in under four years

Red Hat · 2020–now

Fluent in boardroom and kubectl.

At Red Hat I’ve worked every side of the table: architecting platforms, owning strategic accounts and driving cloud growth across Germany, regularly exceeding sales targets and building long-lasting relationships with customers and partners.

That’s the bridge executives need for AI: someone who can translate a business decision into a platform, and a platform back into a business case.

  • ResultsRegularly exceeded sales targets
  • TrustLong-lasting customer and partner relationships
  • PlatformOpenShift and Kubernetes architecture

Open source & homelab

I still build what I advise on.

Around 50 merged contributions to projects like Argo CD and Immich. At home, two OpenShift clusters run fully as code, with a self-hosted AI stack and an ops agent on top.

It keeps my advice honest: I know what AI agents can do in real operations, because I run them on my own platform.

janz.cloud · Founded 2026 · in build

Agents do the work. Humans sign.

janz.cloud is my early-stage venture: AI agents for architectural and administrative work, from document management to strategic support for executives.

I’m putting frontier models like Claude to work while keeping data private, using modern AI techniques. One rule stays fixed: automate execution, keep human sign-off.

  • Built onClaudeMulti-agent supervisor pattern, own skills and plugins
  • RuleAutomate execution, keep human sign-off
  • PrivacyFrontier models, private dataModern AI techniques keep sensitive data protected

What I offer

  1. 01

    Strategic AI partnership

    For executives and boards: AI strategy, roadmap, governance and adoption.

  2. 02

    Architecture agents

    Agents that draft the architecture work. Architects decide.

  3. 03

    Administrative agents

    From document management to executive support. A human signs off.

What’s coming next

  1. Documents

    Document intelligence

    Turns paper piles into searchable, structured knowledge.

  2. Tax

    Administrative tax agent

    Prepares the paperwork. A human signs, it never files.

  3. Meetings

    Local-first meeting intelligence

    Pluggable speech recognition and speaker separation. No generative AI touches the raw transcript.

  4. Ops

    Infrastructure ops agent

    Alert-driven remediation with tightly scoped permissions.

Off the clock

Off the clock, I still engineer things.

Portrait of Jonas Janz smiling, in a navy blazer, in Hamburg's Speicherstadt
Jonas Janz · Hamburg

I run a long-running tabletop campaign in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere like an engineered project, build and tune my own 3D printer, and still play games.

Curiosity is the common thread. It’s also why I’m good at the first conversation about something nobody has done before.

  • d20Game Master, Cosmere tabletop RPG
  • VoronSelf-built 3D printer
  • LanguagesGerman (native), English (fluent)

Contact

Let’s talk.

Want to talk about AI, architecture or the German tech scene? Send me a few lines, or connect with me on LinkedIn.

contact [at] janz.cloud
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