Hannes Lenke
CEO & Co-Founder at Checkly
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHannes Lenke is a seasoned entrepreneur and tech leader with 14 years of experience building developer-focused SaaS products and scaling them globally. He co-founded and sold TestObject to Sauce Labs, then led Sauce Labs' EMEA expansion before founding and now running Checkly, a code-first monitoring platform that brings Monitoring-as-Code and Playwright-driven synthetic checks to modern DevOps. His background as a hands-on software consultant informs a product-first approach that emphasizes programmable, open-source-friendly tooling and cost-effective reliability. Based in New York, he combines operator experience with developer empathy, having supported thousands of mobile developers early in his career—an insight that still shapes how he designs observability for APIs and web apps.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Business Computing, Bachelor, Business Computing, Bachelor at The Berlin School of Economics and Law
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
puppeteer10
checkly10
nodejs10
hugo9
javascript9
monitoring9
typescript9
browser9
cli9
js9
playwright9
agile-development8
drift8
hashicorp8
terraform-provider8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hlenke/awesome-terraform
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Curated list of resources on HashiCorp's Terraform
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
terraform-providerterraform-modulehashicorpterraform
hlenke/checkly-cli
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
TS/JS native E2E Testing and Monitoring workflow: Monitoring-as-Code.
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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