Jens Vagelpohl
Software Developer, Network- And Systems Engineer at Freelancer / self-employed
Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Vagelpohl is a software developer and network/systems engineer with 26 years of experience building and operating large-scale Python web applications, particularly Zope and Plone deployments. He blends hands-on application design and test-driven development with deep expertise in configuration management, deployment automation, and securing internet services across fleets of servers. As a former core developer for Zope and the CMF and maintainer of LDAP–Zope/Plone integrations, he brings rare institutional knowledge of both app internals and directory-service connectivity. Jens has led hosted infrastructure teams and freelance projects for enterprises like SAP, Haufe and RBS, routinely managing dozens to a hundred systems in production. Based in Oldenburg, Germany, he remains actively engaged in Python-based web projects and is known for pragmatic, scalable architecture choices that prioritize maintainability.
26 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Management Information Systems, MS Management Information Systems at Eastern Michigan UniversityBBA Automotive Marketing and Management, BBA Automotive Marketing and Management at Northwood University
English, German
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
openldap10
bootcamp10
dtml10
python-scripts10
plone10
continuous-testing10
catalog10
login-page10
python-ldap10
docx10
inheritance10
deployment-automation10
filesystem10
subscribe10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zopefoundation/Products.DCWorkflow
May 2008 - Dec 2022
Customizable workflows for the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF).
Contributions:9 reviews, 83 commits, 7 PRs in 14 years 9 months
cmfzopecustomizablecontent-managementworkflows
zopefoundation/.github
Sep 2020 - Feb 2024
Templates used for all repos which do not provide these files
Contributions:8 reviews, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 5 months
stagingtemplateall-repos
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