James Dietrich
Chief Technology Officer at Dreamdata
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJames Dietrich is a pragmatic technology leader with 13 years of experience who currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Dreamdata after leading engineering and CTO roles at Electricity Maps and multiple senior positions at Zendesk. He has progressed from customer-facing and support roles into engineering leadership, bringing a deep empathy for product users and operational reliability to strategic technical decisions. James specializes in scaling engineering teams and systems for SaaS and data-driven products, balancing hands-on delivery with long-term architectural thinking. Based in Copenhagen, he combines international startup and enterprise experience to align engineering roadmaps with business outcomes. A concise communicator and mentor, he is known for turning customer insights into measurable product improvements and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (60)
visualization10
zendesk-api10
electricity10
css10
kafka10
rails10
zendesk10
consumption10
sustainability10
ruby10
simple-framework10
climate-change10
electricity-prices10
data-visualization10
api-client9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jbdietrich/generalSSO
Mar 2014 - Jun 2018
An Express-based SSO testing tool for Zendesk's implementations of SAML and JWT
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
implementationsstatelesstestingzendeskauthentication
zendesk/thread_merged_comments_app
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 2 months
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