Sören Jensen
Backend Team Lead & Senior Developer at Awardit AB
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSören Jensen is a seasoned backend team lead and senior developer with 13 years of production experience and a Master in Applied Information Technology from the University of Gothenburg. He has spent over a decade shaping and architecting e-commerce platforms (Textalk/Abicart) and now leads backend for B2C solutions at Awardit, working with PHP, MariaDB, GraphQL/gRPC and Magento. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he has repeatedly served as tech lead, project manager and sole architect, with a track record of improving code quality and sustainability through refactoring and standards adoption. A pragmatic polyglot, Sören has hands-on experience across Java, Groovy/Grails, C/C++, modern JS frameworks and DevOps tools like Docker, CI/CD and RabbitMQ. He is an active open-source contributor (notably improving PSR compliance and tests in a popular PHP WebSocket library), showing attention to long-term maintainability as well as feature delivery. Based in Gothenburg, he combines deep backend craftsmanship with practical leadership in small-to-midsize product teams.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied information technology, Master, Applied information technology at University of Gothenburg
English, Swedish
Github Skills (3)
php10
unit-testing10
code-standards10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Textalk/websocket-php
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
WebSocket client and server in PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 2 reviews, 201 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sören's contributions primarily focused on implementing and maintaining code standards. They made multiple commits dedicated to addressing and improving the code style of the project, which included refactoring code and applying changes to adhere to PSR coding standards. The user also made changes to both `lib/Base.php` and `lib/Client.php`. Additionally, the user performed a test overhaul across several files.
websocketsphprfc-6455websocketwebsocket-client
sirn-se/phrity-util-insistence
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 5 years 1 month
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