Jens Neuse
Founder at WunderGraph Inc
Germany
Summary
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RockstarJens Neuse is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading WunderGraph to help platform teams manage GraphQL federation at scale. Based in Germany, he blends hands-on Go development with database engineering—contributing core parser improvements and schema handling to wundergraph/graphql-go-tools and building PostgreSQL integrations and example applications within the WunderGraph framework. His work emphasizes correctness, extensibility, and high performance in API gateways and BFFs, with practical expertise in GraphQL federation, subscriptions, and complex schema parsing. Jens pairs product-focused engineering with open-source leadership, shipping tools that make federated GraphQL more manageable for teams of any size. An underappreciated strength is his attention to low-level parser details (string escaping, nested structures, variable types) that materially improve runtime robustness.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
apim10
postgresql10
databases10
wpgraphql10
ast-parser10
go10
parsing10
parse10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
graphql-schema10
database10
api-gateway9
api9
typescripts8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wundergraph/graphql-go-tools
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
GraphQL Router / API Gateway framework written in Golang, focussing on correctness, extensibility, and high-performance. Supports Federation v1 & v2, Subscriptions & more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 281 reviews, 1551 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jens's commits primarily focus on enhancing the GraphQL tools library, with contributions centered on the parser and related utilities. They implemented features such as schema definition parsing, including handling of nested data structures and type extensions, alongside handling string escaping and variable type definitions. The user worked on improving the core functionality of the project, demonstrating expertise in building and extending GraphQL parser capabilities within a Go environment.
api-gatewayextensibilitygolanggraphqllexer
wundergraph/wundergraph
May 2022 - Jan 2023
WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:17 releases, 719 reviews, 224 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributed to the development of a PostgreSQL example within the WunderGraph framework. This involved creating database tables, defining GraphQL operations for data interaction, and configuring the WunderGraph application. The user added an example application to showcase the integration of PostgreSQL with the WunderGraph framework. These changes demonstrate the user's expertise in setting up database connections and implementing back-end functionalities within the project.
backendbackend-for-frontendfrontendfull-stackapi
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