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)
datetime10
python10
psycopg10
authentication10
zope10
hierarchy10
publish10
content-type10
client-server10
build-automation10
dtml10
python-scripts10
pyldap10
plone10
catalog10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zopefoundation/DocumentTemplate
Jul 2010 - Jan 2023
Document Templating Markup Language (DTML)
Contributions:21 reviews, 125 commits, 22 PRs in 12 years 8 months
dtmlmarkup-languagetemplating
dataflake/dataflake.docbuilder
Jun 2010 - Nov 2018
Sphinx and ReST documentation build system
Contributions:152 commits, 3 PRs, 49 pushes in 8 years 6 months
build-systemdocumentation-toolpythonsphinx
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