Jens Deters
Field CTO, Technology & Innovation Office
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Deters is a strategic technology leader and Field CTO based in Erlangen with over two decades of software and consulting experience and 13 years in senior technical roles. He has progressed from hands-on software development and product management to founding Softblade (creator of the MQTT.fx client) and leading professional services and Office-of-the-CTO functions at HiveMQ. Jens combines deep MQTT and messaging expertise with practical delivery experience—running teams, shaping product strategy, and advising customers on IoT and enterprise messaging architectures. Known for turning developer-facing tooling into widely used utilities, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with enterprise-grade discipline. His background in training and consulting gives him a rare knack for translating complex technical concepts into actionable customer outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Computersoftware und Medienanwendungen, Diplom Computersoftware und Medienanwendungen at Hochschule Osnabrück
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
fontawesomefx10
preset9
decoder8
addon8
templeos7
java7
maven-plugin7
payload7
finder7
font-size7
maven7
font-awesome6
css6
javafx6
mqtt5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Jerady/mqttfx-manual
Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:106 commits in 1 year 5 months
Jerady/addon-commons
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:15 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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