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Professional Summary

Engineering leader with 25+ years experience building resilient software systems and high-performing teams. Currently leading 15 engineers across Payments at Pleo, with a track record of improving operational maturity and team practices. Equally effective as hands-on technical contributor and people manager—seeking Staff/Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager roles where I can combine technical depth with mentoring and organizational impact.

Current Role

Senior Engineering Manager, Payments Group | Pleo (Nov 2024 – Present) Engineering Manager, Payments Group | Pleo (Apr 2022 – Nov 2024)

Managed ~15 engineers across three teams in the Payments group.

  • Team Leadership: Grew and split team into two focused teams, improving delivery velocity and developer experience
  • Operational Excellence: Reduced incident scope and frequency through systematic improvements in resilience and observability
  • Scale Efficiency: Supported 3x growth in payments volume with same team size and modest hardware requirements
  • Technical Standards: Implemented canonical log lines and circuit breaker patterns that are set to become organization-wide standards

Technical Skills & Practices

Languages & Frameworks JavaScript (expert), Go (learning), Python, Ruby, Node.js, Single Page Applications, Progressive Enhancement

Architecture & Reliability Distributed systems, microservices, circuit breakers, resilience patterns, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), SLO/SLI implementation

Practices Test-driven development, refactoring, code craft, pair programming, mentoring, engineering culture building

Tools & Platforms Git, CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization

Leadership Team scaling (grew and split teams), DORA metrics improvement, incident reduction, operational maturity programs

Career Highlights

Senior Engineering Manager | Pleo (Nov 2024 – Present) Engineering Manager | Pleo (Apr 2022 – Nov 2024)

Lead Engineer | Kalo (Nov 2018 – Jan 2020)

Senior Software Engineer | Zalando SE (Jan 2017 – Nov 2018)

Senior Software Engineer | Apple - Maps Internal Tools (May 2015 – Nov 2016)

Senior JavaScript Developer | Nokia gate5 (Sep 2009 – Oct 2011)

Independent Software Engineer | Various clients (2001 – Present) Including: Brandwatch, AKQA, Atea, Imagine Easy Solutions, Bunch, and others through agencies 7N, Strand & Donslund, Equal Experts

Earlier experience: Coop, ZYB, Semler IT, IT-Jobbank, Valtech, Software Innovation (1996 – 2001)

Community & Open Source

Open Source

  • Sinon.JS — Core team member, testing library with 9M+ weekly downloads
  • Active contributor to JavaScript testing ecosystem

Community Leadership

  • codebar Berlin — Volunteer coach and chapter organizer
  • CoderDojo Berlin — Volunteer mentor for young programmers
  • CopenhagenJS — Founder and organizer (18 months)
  • Conference Speaker — Front Trends 2010, Reject.JS 2010
  • Meetup Speaker — BerlinJS, CopenhagenJS, AsyncJS

Volunteering

  • Homeless Veggie Dinner Berlin — Volunteer cook (~10 years)

Education

  • Datamatiker (AP Degree in Computer Science) | Aarhus Business College (1996 – 1998)
  • Object Oriented Development | Datanom (1999)
  • Matematisk studenter eksamen | Thisted Gymnasium (1990 – 1993)

Additional Training

Languages

Danish (Fluent), English (Fluent), Swedish (Some), German (~B1)

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