About

I'm Jesse, a platform engineer with over 15 years in software and a decade focused on data engineering. I've spent most of that time in the details: building pipelines, wiring up infrastructure, and writing the tooling that keeps everything from falling apart.

Currently, I work as a Senior Platform Engineer at a scale-up in Hamburg, where I focus on the systems and tooling that underpin how engineers build and ship. Before that, I spent several years at a Berlin start-up shaping their data platform, designing the data lake and warehouse architecture, building automation in Python and Go, and deploying AWS services through Terraform.

cliwright is where I build things outside of work. The name says it: a wright is a maker, someone who builds with care and stands behind what they make. The tools here are small, purposeful, and born from real problems I've run into over the years. No bloat, no over-engineering.

I've always found teaching and mentoring to be one of the more rewarding parts of this work. There's something in the act of explaining a thing clearly that sharpens your own understanding of it. That instinct carries into how I build: if it can't be explained simply, it probably isn't simple enough.