Jesper Henriksen
Chief Technology Officer at Rockstart
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJesper Henriksen is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in Copenhagen with 16 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and products across SaaS and mission-driven tech. He led large teams at Zendesk—operating as VP Engineering and Copenhagen site lead responsible for Guide, Sell and ML/AI initiatives—and now heads technology at Be My Eyes, a global, Apple Design Award–winning accessibility platform used in 150 countries. An investor and advisor in emerging tech and startups, he combines product-focused leadership with hands-on engineering roots in Ruby on Rails, evidenced by contributions to the popular Refinery CMS where he added Danish localization and modernized dependencies. Jesper is known for turning small engineering teams into high-performing organizations, launching new SKUs and acquisitions into production, and balancing commercial scale with social impact.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
A-levels, A-levels at MetropolitanskolenAP Degree Computer Science, AP Degree Computer Science at Copenhagen Business School
Danish, English
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
localization10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby-rails9
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
refinery/refinerycms
May 2010 - May 2011
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesper contributed to the Ruby on Rails CMS, Refinery CMS, by adding Danish language support for the user interface and translations within multiple files. They addressed a typo in a WYMeditor translation, indicating attention to detail in localization. Furthermore, the user upgraded the dependencies by replacing the aws-s3 with fog gem, updating the project's infrastructure. This involved modifications in resource and image configurations.
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsrefinery-cms
hvirring/simplesamlphp-sqlauthbcrypt
Mar 2011 - Dec 2022
An authentication module for SimpleSAMLphp that assumes password hashes are stored cryptographically secure.
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 11 years 11 months
securecryptographystoredcryptographically-securesecurity
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