Hi, I’m Jens Skott. I’m a tenacious technology leader and principal engineer with over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between complex infrastructure and business goals. I specialise in taking on the intractable problems no one else wants to touch, driving them to completion with a relentless focus on stability and developer velocity. I’ve managed multi-million-pound budgets and architected systems handling 1M+ requests per second, always building high-performing engineering cultures and the sophisticated environments they need to thrive. I’ve led teams through critical migrations, modernised platform architectures, and established scalable, secure CI/CD pipelines that empower product teams to ship faster with confidence. My approach blends hands-on engineering excellence with strategic leadership to align technology with business outcomes, while mentoring teams to grow their capabilities and stay resilient in the face of complexity.

Jens Skott

Hi, I’m Jens Skott. I’m a tenacious technology leader and principal engineer with over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between complex infrastructure and business goals. I specialise in taking on the intractable problems no one else wants to touch, driving them to completion with a relentless focus on stability and developer velocity. I’ve managed multi-million-pound budgets and architected systems handling 1M+ requests per second, always building high-performing engineering cultures and the sophisticated environments they need to thrive. I’ve led teams through critical migrations, modernised platform architectures, and established scalable, secure CI/CD pipelines that empower product teams to ship faster with confidence. My approach blends hands-on engineering excellence with strategic leadership to align technology with business outcomes, while mentoring teams to grow their capabilities and stay resilient in the face of complexity.

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Hi, I’m Jens Skott. I’m a tenacious technology leader and principal engineer with over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between complex infrastructure and business goals. I specialise in taking on the intractable problems no one else wants to touch, driving them to completion with a relentless focus on stability and developer velocity. I’ve managed multi-million-pound budgets and architected systems handling 1M+ requests per second, always building high-performing engineering cultures and the sophisticated environments they need to thrive.

I’ve led teams through critical migrations, modernised platform architectures, and established scalable, secure CI/CD pipelines that empower product teams to ship faster with confidence. My approach blends hands-on engineering excellence with strategic leadership to align technology with business outcomes, while mentoring teams to grow their capabilities and stay resilient in the face of complexity.

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Owner, Technology Consultant at Thoughtgears
March 1, 2025 - Present
Successfully guided multiple clients in building and scaling their engineering functions by establishing best practices for cloud-native architecture, DevOps pipelines, and CI/CD, leading to improved development velocity and system reliability.
Head of Engineering & Principal Engineer at Checkatrade
February 1, 2021 - March 1, 2025
Architected major migration from legacy AWS stack to a modern, event-driven GCP platform using Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Golang-based services; led a company-wide security uplift; reorganized engineering into a Center for Operational Excellence; defined an internal IDP platform and incident response improvements.
DevOps Lead Engineer at Love Holidays
April 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021
Launched widely adopted ChatOps and deployment tooling; improved release management; mentored development teams; introduced Terraform-based deployment utilities; enhanced automation and operational efficiency across the organization.
DevOps Manager at Deltatre OTT
February 1, 2018 - April 30, 2020
Established the platform/DevOps function; led Kubernetes adoption on AWS EKS; built CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling; defined a 5-year engineering strategy and a new operating model to improve efficiency and reliability.
DevOps Engineer at Accedo TV
June 1, 2016 - February 28, 2018
Built scalable AWS infrastructure for microservices using Terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes (ECS); decomposed legacy monoliths and contributed backend development in Go/Golang to improve platform performance.
DevOps Engineer at Schibsted
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2016
Pioneered DevOps transformation, established foundational SDLC processes, implemented Atlassian suite for lifecycle management, and automated workflows with Ruby and Chef; built an IDP for VMware to accelerate deployments.
DevOps Engineer at Gears of Leo
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Established a fully automated Rackspace Cloud environment; implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; explored containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Rancher) to modernize the platform.
DevOps Engineer at Klarna
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
Spearheaded migration to a cloud-based development environment and supported migration strategies to enable scalable, resilient deployments.
DevOps Engineer at King AB
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2014
Automated a large-scale data center environment using private cloud technologies and configuration management to streamline deployments and improve reliability.
Infrastructure Team Lead at Fresha
August 1, 2025 - Present
Transform SDLC by transitioning the team to a Kanban-style workflow, reducing context switching, and improving team efficiency and morale through focused, high-value priorities.
DevOps Lead at Loveholidays
April 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
Engineered high-scale infrastructure, reduced MTTA and MTTR through monitoring and automation, and optimized peak-load handling with resilient cloud architecture.
DevOps Engineer & IT Manager at Schibsted Media Group
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2016
Led DevOps transformation by establishing foundational development-to-production processes and implementing Atlassian tooling for SDLC management; drove automation, tooling, and IT strategy across teams.
Cloud Migration Pioneer at Klarna
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
Spearheaded cloud migration experimentation and migrations to cloud platforms, establishing patterns and practices that informed broader cloud-adoption efforts.

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