Hans Jespersen
SVP Customer Success Group at Confluent
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolHans Jespersen is a seasoned technology executive with 13+ years in senior pre-sales, customer success, and systems engineering roles, now leading Confluent’s Customer Success Group from Menlo Park. He has a deep specialization in distributed systems, messaging, SOA/EDA architectures, and enterprise B2B integrations, built across influential roles at Confluent, Solace, TIBCO and Endeca. Known for scaling and building technical teams—he grew a global pre-sales organization early in his career—Hans combines strategic vision with hands-on technical credibility in areas like CEP, MOM, and enterprise search. He excels at translating complex integration challenges into pragmatic, revenue-driving solutions and has repeatedly moved customers from proof-of-concept to production at scale. Trained as an honours Computer Science graduate from the University of Waterloo, he pairs academic rigor with decades of field experience across fintech, eCommerce, and platform infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BMath, Computer Science, Honours, BMath, Computer Science, Honours at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (55)
tesla10
javascript10
librdkafka10
node-red10
producer10
nodejs10
high-performance10
apache-kafka10
confluent9
json9
avro9
java9
kafka-producer9
kafka9
schema9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hjespers/node-red-contrib-nest
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
nestjsnode-reddetectorsnestnodejs
hjespers/node-red-contrib-rdkafka
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Publish/subscribe nodes for Node-Red using high performance librdkafka C library
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 9 months
publishc-librarynode-rednodespublish-subscribe
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