Jesper Kristensen
Freelance Software Consultant at Jesper Torp Kristensen
Hjerm, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJesper Kristensen is a freelance backend engineer and consultant with over 16 years of experience designing, deploying and maintaining cloud-native services using Python, Kubernetes and emerging LLM tooling like ChatGPT. He excels at simplifying large-scale, complex problems into maintainable systems and has led backend and DevOps efforts across startups and product teams, including building high-throughput systems at Issuu and owning Live Chat infrastructure at SupWiz through its acquisition. Practically minded, he focuses on automation, CI improvements, analytics redesign and GDPR-safe data handling, with a track record of delivering secure, well-documented handovers. A competitive problem-solver, Jesper reached the top 1% in Google Code Jam and placed second in a national math competition, a hint at his analytical rigor that underpins both system design and hands-on debugging. Based in Central Denmark, he is currently open for consulting engagements and brings a bias for simplicity and sustainability in long-lived software.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Math track, Math track at Struer GymnasiumMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversitetStruer Østre Skole
English, German, Czech, Danish
Github Skills (8)
parser10
parsing10
validation10
pythonic10
json-schema10
python9
data-parsing9
pydantic8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
doktoren/chess-cpp
Aug 2012 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
doktoren/poker-java
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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