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Jens Kjær Henneberg

Jens Kjær Henneberg


Christchurch, NZ
English, Danish

Background


About

About

I am a dedicated Cloud Architect with a track record on delivering high quality quickly in complex organizations with complex system landscapes.
I have more than 20 years’ experience in software development and am a very proficient .NET Developer. I am a fast learner and have a great curiosity of new technologies.
I am great at knowledge sharing and making sure benefits from new technologies are gained quickly across the organization.
I have extensive Cloud experience with both AWS and Azure. I'm experienced in designing robust and scalable Cloud Native solutions from scratch.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Principal Software Engineer, Phocas Software

    Nov, 2022 - Present

    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 observability solution across product offerings and educated teams in usage

    • Spearheaded project to move 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

  • Cloud

    AWS

    Azure

    S3

    CloudFront

    Distributed tracing / OpenTelemetry

    Prometheus / Grafana

    ELK Stack / Graylog

    Terraform

    Icinga / VictorOps

  • Software development and architecture

    Software Design

    Integration patterns

    Scrum

    Agile Methodologies

  • Devops

    CI/CD

    GO Continuous delivery

    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