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Jens Kjær Henneberg

Jens Kjær Henneberg

Software Engineering Leader | Cloud Architect


Background


About

About

Dedicated Technical Leader with 20+ years experience in delivering high quality solutions in complex organizations with complex system landscapes.
Fast learner with a great curiosity for new technologies.
Known for rapid knowledge sharing and for driving technology adaption across organisations.
Extensive Cloud experience with both Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
Excellent communicator.
Vast international experience

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • VP of Engineering, PayComplete

    Jul, 2024 - Present

    Responsible for both cloud platform and device software area on large fleet of cash management devices across the world.

    • Responsible for 3 development geographically dispersed development teams and one DevOps team

    • Setting Architectural direction of platform

    • Responsible for cloud architecture

    • Decommissioning legacy platform

    • Stakeholder management

  • Principal Software Engineer, Phocas Software

    Nov, 2022 - Jun, 20241 year 7 months

    Working closely with product teams to evolve the Phocas software offering

    • AWS Cloud solution running across multiple regions

    • Work closely with product teams to modernise architecture and work processes

    • Introduced feature flagging solution across the organisation

    • Introduced observability solution across product offerings and educated teams in usage

    • Changed release cycle of main product from monthly to weekly

    • Reworked release of main product to allow zero-down time deployment

    • Introduced centralised logging across all the teams in the organisation

  • Head of Development, Konsolidator A/S

    Sep, 2021 - Sep, 20221 year 1 month

    As Head of Development reporting to the CTO, I was technically responsible for a team of 10 back and frontend developers working on a SaaS solution for Financial Consolidation

    • Extensive work with Azure Cloud Technologies

    • Growing the skill-set of the development team

    • Building a new off-shore team in Warsaw, Poland

    • Evolving the product to make better use of cloud technologies

  • Technical Lead, Konsolidator A/S

    May, 2021 - Aug, 20213 months

    I worked extensively with Azure Cloud Technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Service Bus, Api Management, FrontDoor and Cosmos DB.

    • ASP.NET Core Microservices

    • Kubernetes

    • Angular

    • Pulumi

  • Principal Software Engineer, Danske Bank A/S

    Jan, 2020 - Apr, 20211 year 4 months

    I was Tech Lead in the Payment Innovation team. I'm mainly working on the backend for the Danske Bank Mobile Bank App. Main technologies used:

    • Open Banking API

    • ASP.NET Core Microservices

    • Kubernetes and Openshift

  • Principal Software Engineer, Danske Bank A/S

    Jan, 2015 - Dec, 20195 years

    I was Tech Lead for a team in the Regulatory Reporting department responsible for MiFID, EMIR, Dodd-Frank reporting etc. My main achievements were:

    • Delivering high quality solutions quickly in a complex systems landscape

    • Created a high quality cloud based platform used by several teams, allowing developers to focus on implementing business requirements

    • Introduced and implemented distributed tracing, performance metrics, consolidated logging and continues delivery used by several teams in Trading Technology IT.

    • Responsible for the overall architecture of a platform processing several hundred thousand trades every day

    • Moved a large code base of mainframe and physical servers to a containerized infrastructure in .NET Core

    • Keeping developer velocity high, so large business requirements can be implemented while the entire infrastructure is modernized

    • Responsible for designing and implementing platform for MiFID II Reporting

    • DevOps evangelist

  • Software Architect and Developer, Edlund A/S

    Oct, 2007 - Dec, 20147 years 2 months

    At Edlund A/S I worked as a consultant at a number of large Danish financial institutions. Edlund develops and implements a pension administration systems. I worked both on the core system, and as a developer on a number customer sites.

    • Took university courses in Life insurance Mathematics and actuarial science to better understand the business.

  • Software Engineer and Requirement Lead (External consultant), PFA Pension

    Jan, 2011 - Nov, 20143 years 10 months

    I worked as a Senior .NET developer on a new pension administration system for PFA. I mainly worked on developing the mathematical parts of the system. I was responsible for requirement review and estimation.

    • Implemented business requirements quickly in a complex business environment

  • Software Engineer and Mathematical Lead (External consultant), ATP

    Jan, 2008 - Jan, 20113 years

    I was a mathematical lead on a pension administration system implemented in .NET. I primarily worked on designing and implementing new PAL legislation.

    • Implemented system support for new legislation

  • Software Engineer, DSB

    Jul, 2006 - Sep, 20071 year 2 months

    I implemented a system for managing utility bills for real estate owned by DSB.

  • Senior Consultant, EG A/S

    Oct, 2002 - Jul, 20063 years 9 months

    At EG I worked as a consultant on a number of large companies in Europe

  • Software Consultant (External consultant), SimCorp A/S

    Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20041 year

    I worked on an in-house CRM system, integrating it with SimCorp Dimension.

  • Freelance Software Developer, Self Employed

    Mar, 2002 - Jan, 200310 months

    I worked on Siebel CRM implementations for companies in Norway and the UK.

  • Senior Consultant, Customer Systems

    Jan, 2001 - Mar, 20021 year 2 months

    Worked as a Siebel CRM consultant for a number of European companies.

Skills

Skills

  • Observability/Monitoring

    Business and technical Metrics

    Distributed tracing / OpenTelemetry

    Prometheus / Grafana

    ELK Stack / Graylog

  • Cloud Architecture

    Kubernetes

    AWS

    Azure

    S3

    CloudFront

    Terraform

  • Software development and architecture

    Software Design

    Integration patterns

    Scrum

    Agile Methodologies

  • Migrating legacy applications to the Cloud

    Kubernetes

    AWS

    Azure

    Observability

  • Devops

    CI/CD

    GitHub Actions

    Bitbucket pipelines

    AzureDevOps

    GitOps

  • Domain Knowledge

    Banking

    Finance

    ISO20022

    MiFID

    Regulatory Reporting

    Actuarial Science

    Mathematics

  • Backend

    C#

    .Net Core

    ASP .net core

    Kubernetes

    Linux

    Windows

    Traefik reverse proxy / edge router

    Networking

  • Messaging

    RabbitMQ

    Kafka

    MQSeries

    MQTT

    Azure Service Bus

  • Security

    SSL

    Certificates

    Public key infrastructure

  • Databases

    Cosmos DB

    MSSql

    Redis

    MongoDB

    PostgreSQL

    MariaDB / MySQL

Education

Education

  • Actuarial sciences, , University of Copenhagen

    Jan, 2010 - Jan, 2012

    Life insurance mathematics

    Continuous Time Finance

    Insurance Accounting and Regulatory Legislation

  • Applied Mathematics, M.Sc., University of Sussex

    Sep, 1999 - Jan, 2001

  • Mathematics, B.Sc, University of Aarhus

    Sep, 1995 - Aug, 1999

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • FamilyDownhill Mountain bikingRunning