Casper Jensen
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolCasper Jensen is a senior staff software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in infrastructure and developer experience, now focused on engineering at Databricks after a decade-long tenure at Uber. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University and a cum laude M.Sc. from Aalborg—with hands-on delivery of large-scale systems. Casper excels at bridging research and production, having started his career in research at Fujitsu Laboratories of America before moving into high-impact platform roles. He is based in Central Denmark and brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to developer tooling and scalable infrastructure. A habitual problem-solver, he pairs rigorous methods from his doctoral work with practical engineering to simplify complex distributed systems for everyday developer use.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. in Engineering in Software Cum Laude Computer Science, M.Sc. in Engineering in Software Cum Laude Computer Science at Aalborg UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityMathematics physics, Mathematics physics at HTX Technical Gymnasium in Viby
Danish, English
Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
container10
docker10
javascript10
python10
docker-image10
testing10
python-web10
mesos9
kubernetes9
networking9
buildkite7
continuous-integration5
cicd4
go4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eth-sri/R4
Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:380 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
cs-au-dk/Artemis
Jan 2012 - Nov 2014
automated testing for JavaScript
Contributions:648 commits in 2 years 10 months
javascripttesting
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