Jens Pillgram-Larsen

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Senior Engineering Manager -- Development Tools

Technology / Software / Internet

My mission is to change the way software is developed and released. I believe software engineers, who are a scarce and expensive resource, waste far too much time on inefficient tools and processes. It's time to change that. At LinkedIn I am part of a team working on improving development tools by making them faster, smarter and more automated. We are building tools that run in the background performing common tasks like compilation and running tests automatically. We are building 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 productive and happy. In 2012 we ...