Jens Hadlich
Senior Principal Engineer at BESTSECRET Group
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Hadlich is a seasoned Senior Principal Engineer based in Leipzig with over 14 years building and leading engineering teams across e‑commerce and platform companies. He blends deep distributed-systems and DevOps expertise with a human-centered approach to socio-technical systems, regularly breaking down barriers between development and operations to accelerate product delivery. Jens has progressed from hands-on software architect and developer roles to Head of Engineering and principal leadership at BESTSECRET and Spread Group, shaping architecture, delivery and organizational practices. He is an advocate for open source and agile methods, enjoys writing code daily, and pairs strategic thinking with practical implementation—often stepping back into the codebase to validate designs. An unexpected strength is his project-management training (PRINCE2), which helps him align technical solutions with business risk and delivery constraints.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management / PRINCE2, Project Management / PRINCE2 at University of the West of ScotlandB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
German, English, Japanese, Russian
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Github Skills (121)
jar10
radosgw10
java10
amazon10
s3-bucket10
json-encoder10
encoder9
logback9
solr9
spring-mvc9
vault9
logstash9
jakartaee9
broker9
openstack-swift9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jenshadlich/OREAj
Jan 2013 - Oct 2018
Contributions:232 commits, 118 pushes, 2 issues in 5 years 9 months
jenshadlich/stuff-to-read
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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