Jens Højstrup
CTO at Planday
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Højstrup is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building cloud-native SaaS platforms and scaling engineering organizations. He has co-founded and grown product-driven companies, led autonomous, domain-driven teams, and architected automated, continuously deployed infrastructures using AWS, Terraform, Node.js, GraphQL, and AI/ML components. At ComplyCloud he combined technical leadership with regulatory domain expertise—GDPR, NIS2, DORA and ISO 2700X—helping steer the company through a strategic acquisition that created a leading Nordic compliance-tech group. Jens is pragmatic about quality and delivery, blending hands-on engineering, system design, and people leadership to align product and technology for measurable business outcomes. Based in Copenhagen, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a history of shipping production-grade intelligence features like predictive planning and anomaly detection. A detail that often surprises peers: he pairs deep regulatory knowledge with a developer-first approach, making complex compliance requirements tangible in scalable software.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenStudy Abroad Information Technology, Study Abroad Information Technology at Bond UniversityHigh School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Frederiksborg GymnasiumPrimary School Denmark, Primary School Denmark at Hillerødholm Skole
English, Danish
Github Skills (6)
forecast9
api9
api-documentation9
api-rest8
project-management8
python1
Github contributions (4)
bjornbugge/anagopos
Oct 2010 - Mar 2011
Contributions:43 commits in 5 months
Forecast-it/API
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
API documentation for the Forecast platform
Contributions:7 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 2 months
apiproject-managementapi-documentationforecastapi-rest
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