Born in Germany, Jan Herkelrath initially started his career in the software industry at an IT consultancy in London, developing custom solutions for users in a variety of businesses. He is currently working as a Software Engineer for the SharePoint On-Premise & Online Experiences team based out of Suzhou, China where he focuses on maintaining and improving the Secure Store Service and the Business Connectivity Services within SharePoint. Recently he started collaborating with the Search Crawler team to deliver improved search experiences as well as supporting new user scenarios.