Søren Houen
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSøren Houen is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer based in Berlin with over 20 years in software engineering and more than a decade leading startup technology at every stage. He has architected and built high-availability systems from scratch, designed data models and databases, and led APIs handling hundreds of millions of daily requests. As a pragmatic engineering leader he’s improved team delivery through sensible agile practices, technical debt reduction, and strong test and backup disciplines, including migrations from NoSQL to relational databases when the domain warranted it. His background spans roles from lead backend developer to CTO across sectors like fintech, sports tech and charity e-commerce, and he brings a rare blend of deep backend expertise and product-aware system design. An early practitioner of machine learning for signal extraction (e.g., a tweet-classifying decision engine) and a former Drupal specialist, he pairs broad technical curiosity with operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (45)
data-driven10
spark-sql10
javascript10
visualization10
dashboard10
spark10
bigquery10
postgresql10
athena10
python10
snowflake10
mysql10
mariadb10
databricks10
visualize10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
houen/RFEasy
Apr 2014 - Nov 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 1 push in 8 years 9 months
houen/ssm
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
ssm - simple secrets management
Contributions:2 releases, 61 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 2 months
ssm
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