Jan Blunck studied electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, specializing in computer engineering.

In 2003, he has been studying abroad at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has written his diploma thesis about a VFS based implementation of transparent file system mounts, also referred to as union mounts, at the IBM Lab in Böblingen, Germany.

His contributions in Linux development reach from a USENET newsreader, over device drivers to Linux VFS development.