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
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Github Skills (21)
fontawesomefx10
addon9
preset9
decoder8
java8
commons7
maven-plugin7
maven7
font-awesome6
payload6
css6
javafx6
mqtt5
javafxports5
gatling4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Jerady/addon-commons-demo
Feb 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 years 5 months
Jerady/mqttfx-payload-decoders
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
The default preset of MQTT.fx message payload decoder implementations based on addon-commons.
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years 4 months
commonsimplementationspayloadmqttdecoder
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