Versatile and strong problem solver on all levels. Capable of clarifying requirements with product owners to deliver high-reliability systems within agreed constraints. Committed to fostering a team culture of technical excellence through mentorship, pragmatic system design, and clear communication across multi-functional teams.

 

Personal Profile

Skills

Recent ten years focusing on Functional development with Scala. Play, Akka, Cats, ZIO, Tapir, Doobie and more.

  • Solid foundation on assisting areas for CI, dockers, Kubernetes and Postgres.
  • Collaborated closely with Product Owners to translate complex requirements in the crypto-custody space into scalable backend architectures
  • Data pipeline and orchestration with Spark, PySpark, Pandas and Airflow
Citizenship

Danish citizen, Zurich resident with C-Permit, Swiss citizenship application in progress.

Languages

Native Danish - Fluent English - Fluent German - Basic French

Early Career

Education and early work 1991-2006. Evolving from Mainframe system development - paper and waterfall - over Oracle client-server and then N-tier, quite early on Java and very early adopter on Scala in 2010. Educational background part-time. More details can be provided - as listed also on my LinkedIn profile.

  • System Developer LEC, Architect Maersk Data and IBM Denmark
  • Part-time studies Datanom at Aarhus Business Colleges and History of Ideas at Aarhus University
  • Danish army infantry national service and two 6 month deployments in the UN peace keeping force at Checkpoint and Observation posts in Croatia and Security Guard at HQ by Sarajevo, Bosnia.
  • High school - Math, Physics and Chemistry
Freetime

Alpine mountaineering and martial artist

  • Alpine hiking, sport and rock climbing
  • Certified Basic Ski Instructor
  • Swiss Alpine Club certified Tour Guide
  • Karate black-belt and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
 
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Working Experience

Metaco/Ripple

2022.05 → 2026.01

Senior Software Engineer

Scala Developer on Custody Backend Core team. Covering assorted blockchains and cryptography, including smart contracts and integration with notary/merkle tree, vault, Bookkeeping, MPS, MPC, SQL, MQ. Using Scala, ZIO, Doobie, Tapir and property based integration tests. Kubernetes, Docker, Observability, Temporal, Keycloak.

  • ZIO and property based integration tests
  • Blockchains, Cryptography
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • OTEL, Observability, Grafana, Temporal, Keycloak
  • Copilot and Augment AI investigation for advanced code reviews and implementation support.
Teralytics

2018.09 → 2022.04

Senior Software Engineer

Big data mobility analytics platform developer. Analytics Platform team on Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, both Scala and Python, running with Docker, K8s, Kustomize, Ansible and much more.

  • Focus switch onto very big data
  • Hadoop and other new big data storage platforms.
  • Designed a cutting service using ZIO to serve data from object storage to a Clickhouse cluster.
  • PySpark, Python, Python Pandas, Jupyter, Airflow
  • A lot of Kubernetes and DevOps
Leonteq

2014.08 → 2018.08

Senior Software Engineer

Scala Developer on Market Price Monitoring System Primary Scala Developer on greenfield 24x7 spot price monitoring system

  • Built 24x7 spot price monitoring service from the ground up with on Akka.
  • Akka, ScalaZ, Oracle backend and micro service oriented integrations over MQ.
  • Elastic-search index and new UI built with Angular 2 and Typescript
  • In production 12 months+ with 99.9% uptime and real-time processing of $X million price ticks
  • Service and event driven - ScalaZ, Akka, RabbitMQ, Protobuf
  • Complete UI - Akka Http, Angular 2, Typescript and gRPC
Lenio, Miracle

2006.12 → 2014.06

IT Architect and Senior Developer

Primarily Java EE development on JBoss. JBoss ESB, jPBM, and Scala. Projects end-to-end from conception to maintenance.

  • Service Oriented architectures with Java, .NET and Ruby on Rails, RedHat JBoss
  • Lead Architect/Core Architect on eTL for the Land Registration Court. Complete move to electronic registration of deeds, mortgages and easements on all real estate in Denmark.
  • Complete rewrite in Scala of an existing system for power trading and reporting in production 2010.
  • Daily registration and calculations on bids on the electrical power market.
  • Control room functions with aggregate view of all production and consumption clients
  • Automated starting and stopping of production/consumption at connected facilities when bids on regulating power are activated.
  • Miracle acquired Lenio in July 2010
 
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