Curriculum Vitae

CTO at Zylinc A/S

March 2024 – Current | Copenhagen, Denmark

CTO at TimeLog A/S

January 2023 – Febuary 2024 | Copenhagen, Denmark

I play a pivotal role in harmonizing our technical strategy with our broader business goals, working closely with the CEO, CPO, and product teams. I am overseeing an engineering team with an average of 28 professionals, including 2 team leads, spread across 4 locations.

My key achievements include:

Successfully restructured the engineering and product teams into 4 efficient, cross-functional groups in collaboration with the CPO, enhancing team synergy and product development efficiency in terms of lead time.
Co-developed and implemented new product development methodologies with focus on keeping the teams autonomous and outcome based priorities.
Formulated a comprehensive technical strategy, encompassing everything from vision to technical strategic objectives for product development and the technical platform to drive the technical initiatives for years to come.
Launched the “People Power” initiative, a framework designed to elevate engineer competencies among other things through a career ladder and personal development talks, resulting in enhanced team skills and performance.
Completed the Viking Venture Leadership Program fostering core leadership skills and business strategies for B2B SaaS companies.
Consistently coached and mentored engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
Spearheaded the “Tech Nirvana” initiative, significantly improving engineering processes and culture through enhanced documentation practices.
Lead the ongoing transition from a monolithic to a microservices architecture, ensuring scalability and agility in our tech infrastructure.
Imposed laser focus on automation lowering time to market and reduced operational risk. Also, pushed towards increased observability through APM and logs and secured better operational insights and code performance.
Successfully maintained ISAE 3000 and 3402 Type II declarations.
Launched “Compliance Nirvana” initiative to document data security and compliance policies and procedures centrally with focus on the practical use of them.
Managed team composition and competence both in Denmark and in the offshore Kuala Lumpur office, keeping an us-vs-them attitude to a minimum and building an inclusive tech collaboration across boundaries targeting happy engineers.
Managed R&D OPEX, and supplier relationships, demonstrating a strong acumen in financial and resource management.
Participated in strategic and operational decision-making with the leadership team and board of directors, contributing valuable technical insights to business decisions.

Acting CTO at TimeLog A/S

October 2022 – January 2023 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Tech Lead at TimeLog A/S

September 2018 – September 2022 | Copenhagen, Denmark

I was responsible for evangelizing the technical vision to developers and among other things:

Built POCs of next generation solution for benchmarking or handover to product management and developer teams
Maintained a 24 months technical roadmap
Enforced good code quality among all products that is easy to read, maintain, support and extend on
Built and enhanced the frameworks (development, documentation, test etc.) needed to push all products towards better stability and higher patch quality – and guide the teams
Collected and consolidated technical requirements towards the product including platform analysis
Supported relevant teams and councils with insights into technical and product possibilities
Ran technical concept introductions into the developers
Maintained and developed the general development processes together with relevant teams
Collected and analyzed insights from developers

ScrumMaster and Solution Architect at TimeLog A/S

January 2012 – September 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark

I helped the distributed TimeLog R&D Scrum team as a Certified ScrumMaster to facilitate the process and to enhance performance. I did ongoing architectural concept grooming and research for evolutionary steps for the solution with four generations of technologies and 15 years of code. I carried out structural and deep refactoring and evangelize the company code style and patterns. I did additional solution management of the main IT support systems for patching, deploying and day-to-day business handling.

I worked with continuously improving the Git branching strategy and source control management. I successfully migrated the team from Microsoft Team Foundation Server to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services for both source control and build definitions. I worked with management and risk assessment on a 10 virtual server production environment for TimeLog Project including PowerShell scripting of backup routines, retention policies and cleanup jobs.

I managed API and integrations to and from TimeLog Project for internal strategic project as well as enabling customers to benefit from them. I introduced the official API documentation and built the official SDKs. I worked with data analytics and building of reports for running services in Elastic and Power BI to find abuse and scalability issues. I executed projects for integrating with Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX and Visma Administration.

Co-founder at Lektieplan

June 2006 – June 2023 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Co-founder and developer at Lektieplan – a portal for primary schools in Denmark. Each school and every class gets their own space for assignments and messages and it allows parents and the pupils themselves to catch up on their homework. No more forgotten papers and “I have no homework”.

Solution Architect at Videnhuset UK Ltd

April 2011 – December 2011 (9 months) | London, United Kingdom

Part of establishing a new Videnhuset branch in the UK. Implementing administrative procedures and supporting UK-based customers for Autonomy products (e.g. Qfiniti and Explore).

Partner and Solution Architect at Videnhuset A/S

March 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 10 months) | Copenhagen, Denmark

Worked with meaning based computing using Autonomy products – IDOL server and Qfiniti Etalk suite. Assisted the management in the development of internal processed for project and document management, economics and HR.

External Consultant at Videnhuset A/S

July 2009 – February 2010 (8 months) | Copenhagen, Denmark

Partner and Senior Developer at Mindtrio ApS

June 2003 – February 2010 (6 years 9 months) | Roskilde, Denmark

Grown the business from a side project to a daytime job and finally made the merge with Videnhuset possible. Closed numerous deals with customers, and developed products adding value to their business – primary focus was online services and applications based on Microsoft .NET technology. Served as external consultant for a number of businesses bringing extra competencies to their organizations. Handled day-to-day economics, legal and HR.

Master Student at Technical University of Denmark

2003 – 2009 (6 years) | Lyngby, Denmark

List of courses: Analog and Digital Electronics, Advanced Data Communication, Software Engineering, Digital Design, Concurrent Systems, FireWire Technology, Distributed Systems, Personalization using XML Technologies, Teletraffic Engineering and Network Planning, Usability Engineering, Software Development of Web Services, Next Generation Internet Technologies, Future Mobile Networks and Services, Robust programming, Innovation and digital media.

Student assistant at GN Store Nord A/S

September 2004 – December 2008 (4 years 4 months) | Ballerup, Denmark

Introduced, maintained and supervised a new corporate web site based on Microsoft SharePoint technology in cooperation with the manager in Investor Relations & Corporate Communication. Compiled extended and collective share statistics from Nasdaq OMX and Værdipapircentralen. Co-managed the corporate intranet based on a Microsoft SharePoint platform.

Webmaster at Dan Drift A/S

August 2001 – July 2004 (3 years) | Roskilde, Denmark

Introduced and developed an e-commerce platform increasing product sales. Did ad-hoc computer support and office related work assisting other employees.

Web Designer at Internetservice ApS

September 1999 – May 2001 (1 year 9 months) | Roskilde, Denmark

Ad-hoc coding of HTML and CSS. Graphical work in Photoshop.