Jens Carlén
Head Of Engineering at Bonnier News
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Carlén is a pragmatic engineering leader with 17 years of hands-on development and management experience, now serving as Head of Engineering at Bonnier News in Stockholm. He grew from senior system developer to CTO and architect roles, bringing a holistic mindset that blends readable, test-driven code with delivery-focused project leadership. Jens emphasizes lifecycle thinking—writing code that others can understand and maintain—and champions agile processes to align teams and drive measurable value. His background includes early-stage product work (SoundCloud) and scaling newsroom and subscription systems, showing comfort across startups and large media organizations. Known for pairing with engineers through code reviews and pair programming, he balances technical depth with people-first management. Outside the obvious, he routinely asks “who will read this code and when,” turning that empathy into durable, low-friction systems.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Media Technology, Master of Science (M.S.), Media Technology at KTH\CivilIngenjör, Media Technology, CivilIngenjör, Media Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
German, English
Github Skills (27)
referential-integrity9
dotenv8
environment-variables8
nodejs6
fetch6
logger5
integrity5
json-data4
json4
testing4
logging4
sql3
database3
pluggable3
javascript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
theneubeck/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
BonnierNews/exp-config
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
Simple configuration module for Node.js apps
Contributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
environment-variablesconfigurationnode-jsdotenvnodejs
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