Chris Jensen
Founding Engineer at Speakeasy
New Zealand
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Top SchoolChris Jensen is a founding engineer and experienced software leader with 11 years building scalable, mission-driven platforms that prioritize social impact over growth-at-all-costs. He led Raisely’s global engineering organisation through major scaling milestones—AUD 3M peak daily payments, 99.97% uptime, fraud systems preventing millions in losses—and introduced people-centered practices like inclusive hiring, a 4-day work week, and elite DORA outcomes. Now at Speakeasy, he’s applying cooperative, ad-free social design and algorithmic stewardship to create safer, attention-respecting online spaces. His background uniquely blends software architecture, product coaching, and grassroots environmental organising—he co-founded Climate Conversations and has a track record of turning low-cost tech into high-impact civic engagement. Colleagues describe him as a developer who pairs rigorous technical delivery with empathetic leadership and a habit of making interpersonal growth part of engineering success.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BE (Honours), Software, BE (Honours), Software at University of NewcastleBA (Honours, First Class), Acting, BA (Honours, First Class), Acting at LASALLE College of the ArtsUNSW Sydney
Stackoverflow
2,646reputation
502kreached
50answers
55questions
ssl
top-5%
curl
top-5%
Github Skills (171)
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
db210
javascript10
linux10
sql10
d110
queue10
database10
json10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
climate-conversations/cc-website
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:22 reviews, 71 PRs, 83 pushes in 8 months
raisely/sequelize-to-json-schema
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Flexible json-schema generator from sequelize models
Contributions:43 commits, 25 pushes in 4 months
sequelizesequelize-modelsjson-schematypescriptjson-schema-generator
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