Jens Astrup
Staff Software Engineer at Wellthy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJens Astrup is a staff software engineer and product-minded leader based in New York with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and scaling engineering teams. He combines hands-on development (Python, GraphQL, Celery) with people leadership, having driven major migrations to Auth0, a Python 2→3 upgrade, and performance improvements that cut page load times up to 90%. At Wellthy he now leads AI strategy and infrastructure—shipping production LLM-powered features, an intelligent incident-detecting Slack bot, and internal platforms that accelerate developer velocity. His player/coach approach has repeatedly reduced cycle time and doubled team efficiency during challenging periods, while mentoring distributed teams across three continents. Prior to Wellthy he automated core operations at Interbrand, building RESTful services and workflow automation that streamlined internal processes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Strategic Design & Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Strategic Design & Management at Parsons School of Design - The New School
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Github Skills (89)
ui-components10
shadcn-ui10
radix10
outlook10
radix-ui10
outlook-rest-api10
formatting10
tailwindcss10
endpoints10
react-component-library10
oclif10
css10
nextjs10
tailwind10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JensAstrup/shortcut
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:26 releases, 3 reviews, 330 PRs in 8 months
JensAstrup/pyEchosign
Feb 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 2 months
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