Jens Pillgram Larsen

Jens Pillgram-Larsen works at LinkedIn in the Development Tools team. The team is responsible for software development and delivery tools and processes across LinkedIn Engineering and Operations.

Jens's mission is to change the way software is developed and released.
At LinkedIn the Development Tools team are building tools that run in the background performing tasks like compilation and running tests automatically. The mission is to build an integrated development environment where local tools and remote services integrate. IDEs, command line tools, SaaS and 3rd party tools all come together to make developers happy and productive.

At LinkedIn Jens has completed several major infrastructure projects, including building a continuous deployment pipeline and migration from Java 1.6 to 1.8.