Jesper Christiansen
Hi, I'm Jesper. A software engineer currently living in the Bay Area, California. I'm from 🇩🇰 Denmark and have been in the US for about 10 years.
The pronounciation of my name is closer to `yes-per`.
My current choice for building web apps would fall on Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/Typescript. I love writing code, not so much for the code itself - but more to solve real problems for people.
As a developer I find the things you can do with just a computer and text editor quite fascinating.
🛠️ Work
Independent Contractor
2023-current
Ruby on Rails, Stimulus.js, Hotwire, React, Vue.js, TypeScript
Along
Staff Software Engineer
2022-2023
Mainly backend written in Ruby on Rails. Video encoding using AWS. Helped out with a few iOS features as well (never stop learning).
Zendesk
Senior Staff Software Engineer
2011-2022
A bit over 10 years is a long time. Went from sub 100 employees to 6000+. Worked on frontend, backend. Nginx layer. Started in Ember ended in React. Rails the whole time.
Worked as IC, team-lead and later management as well.
Benjamin Media
Developer
2010-2011
Worked on their custom CMS which made it possible to maintain and write content for the custom websites for each of the magazines. Written in Ruby on Rails. Handled
the devops side as well.
👨💻 Side Projects
This is where you can work on things you're interested in. Try out technologies that are not available to you during your full-time gig. Make users happy! :)