Jens Saade
Senior Director Platform Engineering
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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SeniorJens Saade is a senior platform engineering leader based in Zurich with 11 years of focused experience driving cloud-native transformation at scale. As Senior Director Platform Engineering at GK Software, he has progressed through roles leading cloud platform and omni-commerce development, blending technical ownership with organizational change. He specializes in building resilient, developer-friendly platforms that enable rapid product delivery across distributed teams. Known as a "cloud native traveller" on GitHub, he brings pragmatic hands-on experience alongside strategic leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational requirements into scalable engineering practices and team structures. He often pairs platform modernization with measurable developer experience improvements rather than just technology shifts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (28)
logstash10
metricbeat9
filebeat9
heartbeat9
packetbeat9
elasticsearch9
css7
responsibility7
raml5
svg5
spring5
maven-plugin3
spring-mvc3
grafana2
microservices2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
verticle-io/apex-instrumentation-repo
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
verticle-io/apex-toolkit
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 71 commits, 35 pushes in 4 months
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