Jonas Scholten
Software developer using game design to make repetitive work fun.
Jonas Scholten writes software with an eye for turning tedious work into something engaging. He solves monotonous problems by blending code with game design principles to make repetitive tasks genuinely fun.
He has contributed to projects for NASA, Bosch, and Telekom. Faced with a massive dataset, he once built a virtual city-building game that motivated coworkers to label 2,500 images in just 25 minutes.
Outside of tech, Jonas has presented Rube Goldberg machines on television and won international film awards. A song written by his teenage band still plays in German hardware stores today.