Jens Wilken
Software Developer at SAP
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Wilken is a software developer based in Munich with six years of hands-on experience building backend systems and DevOps tooling at SAP and previously at Scienion. He blends .NET development (SQL Server, ASP.NET, Blazor, WPF) with cloud-native work, notably contributing to the Kyma open-source project where he refactored the eventing-controller and resolved build and linting issues. His background in chemistry and lab automation gives him a practical, experimental mindset for solving integration and infrastructure problems. At SAP he progressed from associate to developer, demonstrating rapid on-the-job growth and ownership of production-facing code and CI/CD concerns. Colleagues value his attention to code quality and his ability to bridge scientific systems and enterprise software.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Chemistry, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Chemistry at TU Dortmund University
Github Skills (10)
eventing10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
cloud-native9
docker8
dockers8
knative8
yaml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:397 reviews, 107 commits, 279 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily focused on refactoring and improving the eventing-controller code. Their contributions involved implementing linting checks, bumping images, and addressing build failures related to linting. The user also made changes to configuration files and test code, which indicates involvement in both backend logic and infrastructure/build processes within the Kyma project.
cloud-nativekuberneteskymaknative
kyma-project/eventing-manager
May 2023 - Sep 2025
Eventing Operator installs Eventing as Kyma module
Contributions:1 release, 189 reviews, 130 PRs in 2 years 4 months
kymaoperator
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