Experience
Career history across industry, academia, and the public sector.
For current status and a full employment history, see LinkedIn. This page captures the substantive work behind each role, beyond what fits in a job-title timeline.
Current Positions
Senior Solution Architect — Mjølner Informatics
Domain expert at the intersection of the energy sector and supporting IT/OT technologies, in a newly established Energy & Utilities business unit. Current engagements provide architecture and Data Governance advisory for major Danish public-sector customers in the Energy and Utilities domain, across technologies like Kafka, datalakes, and API integrations, with focus on data products, data contracts, integration boundaries, and cross-organisational governance. Cross-organisational leadership and Product Owner responsibilities across customer engagements.
Assistant Professor — University of Southern Denmark
Faculty of Engineering, Software Engineering Section. Teaches Data Management (bachelor) and Big Data and Data Science Technologies (master), and supervises master’s and bachelor’s projects. Research focuses on IT solutions for the green energy transition, scalable AI systems, IoT and data-related middleware, big data, deployment strategies, and knowledge management for AI/ML at scale.
External Expert Evaluator — EUDP
Appointed evaluator for the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme (EUDP), under the Danish Energy Agency, reviewing applications for public funding of energy technology projects (TRL 4–8). Evaluates proposals on technical innovation, commercial viability, energy-policy alignment, and organisational readiness across EUDP’s strategic focus areas.
Previous Positions
Chief Advisor — Danish Energy Agency
Drove part of the Danish Utility Digitalisation Programme (Forsyningsdigitaliseringsprogrammet / FDP), representing the expert role of the Danish Government. Contributed as a Danish National Representative and Expert at Data for Energy (D4E), part of the Smart Energy Expert Group (SEEG) in the EU Commission, helping set the direction for flexibility in the future energy grid.
Competencies: Fællesoffentlig dataarkitektur (FDA), Governance, Strategisk planlægning, Datastrukturer, Datamodellering, Data Engineering, Data Science.
Senior Architect, PhD — Energinet
Senior architect, advisor, and innovation driver across Energinet’s OT, IT, and data domains. Subject Matter Expert in multiple Agile Release Trains (GridOp ART, OT ART) under SAFe. Product Owner and Scrum Master for the early-stage team that laid the foundation for the OT Platform (Hamlet) and the IDS integration concept.
Selected contributions:
- Information Distribution Service (IDS) – conceptual foundation. Drove the early direction, alongside DNA’s former Chief Information Architect, and team for what became the Hamlet Project (today the OT Platform). Designed the conceptual foundation for secure, cross-zone data distribution – OSPF-inspired data routing, information-classification matrices for zone-based data governance, abstract landing zones for secure file transfer via Kafka, strict separation of transport and domain logic, 4-eyes authorisation for binary file transfers across security zones.
- Information Management initiative. Designed, initiated, and built the theoretical foundation for the Information Management initiative, estimated at multi-billion DKK, concentrating on data and metadata management for OT in the TSO and DSO sector. Working with DNA architecture leadership, identified that the OT organisation could not carry data-distribution responsibility, and facilitated transferring this capability to DNA, where it grew into the IDS platform.
- National digitalisation strategy. Drove the direction from Energinet’s side (later named Forsyningsdigitaliseringsprogrammet).
- Hamlet Project Expert Advisory Board. Member for the 1.3 billion DKK project. Authored the Non-Functional Requirements for Hamlet.
- EU liaison. Acted as Energinet’s liaison in the EU. Nominated as Energinet’s representative in the EU Smart Energy Expert Group.
- Research coordination. Internal connection point and driving force for ~10 research projects with universities inside and outside Denmark.
Competencies: SAFe, Stakeholder Management, Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF, Microservice architecture, Informationsarkitektur, Strategisk planlægning, Distributed software architecture.
Head of Research & Development — Esoft
Led the strategic initiative to modernise the image preparation, collection, and processing architecture at Esoft using AI Pipelines. The pipeline became one of the company’s main competitive advantages: over 70% of fully AI-edited or AI-assisted image processing now flows through it. Built as a platform, not as per-project AI solutions. The architecture is the basis of the AI Pipelines paper at ICSA-C 2025.
Competencies: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, Domain-Driven Design, Servant Leadership, Machine Learning, Information Architecture, Stream Processing.
Research Affiliate — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3-month research stay as part of PhD program. Collaborated with UC Berkeley. The collaboration with Gabe Fierro later resulted in the 2022 Service Portability paper.
Postdoctoral Researcher / PhD Fellow / External Lecturer — University of Southern Denmark
PhD Fellow at the Center for Energy Informatics (2016–2019), Postdoctoral Researcher in the Software Engineering Section (2019–2021), and External Lecturer (2021–2023). Fields: IoT, Edge Systems, Middleware, Scalable solutions (Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker), Requirements Analysis (especially nonfunctional requirements), Large-scale Data Analysis (Hadoop, Spark). Most of the conference and journal publications originate from this period.
Software Architect — Blue Ocean Robotics
Architecture, design, and construction of multiple internal applications. Development and maintenance of websites built in ASP.NET MVC and Umbraco. Involved in multiple robot-related software projects. Server, network, and operations responsibility.
Software Architect — Hviid Development
Own company (formerly hviidNet), operated continuously over 14 years and in parallel with most of the W2 roles above. Software development, architecture, scalable solutions, hosting, network, and server architecture. Ran own infrastructure and operations.
Competencies: .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, Linux Server, Network, Cisco, Active Directory, Windows Server, Distributed software architecture, IT-Arkitektur.
System Consultant — ScanNet
Direct operations and architecture experience: Linux (LVS, Apache), Windows (Clusters, IIS, DNS, AD, Exchange), Database (MySQL, MSSQL), Network (Cisco, Teaming), SAN/HBA, VMware vSphere, monitoring.
IT Consultant — Unik System Design
System Consultant, Test Manager, Database Manager.
IT Supporter — Carlsberg Group
Onsite support of users from Tuborg and Coca-Cola in Fredericia. Administration of on-floor production computers.
Education
| Period | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 – 2019 | PhD in Software Engineering | Faculty of Engineering, SDU |
| 2014 – 2016 | M.Sc. in Software Engineering (cand.polyt) | Faculty of Engineering, SDU |
| 2013 – 2014 | B.Sc. in Web Development (International) | UCL Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole |
| 2010 – 2013 | Academy Profession in Computer Science | UCL Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole |
| 2002 – 2005 | IT Supporter, Data and Communications Education | Syddansk Erhvervsskole |
| 2000 – 2002 | Højere Forberedelseseksamen (HF) | Nr. Nissum Seminarie og HF |
Certifications
- Enterprise Architecture Training and Certification Program – Module 1: Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture, EA Fellows (2024–2025).
- ArchiMate (90171), DTI (2022–2025).
- CCNA 1–4 (Networking Fundamentals, Routers and Routing Basics, WAN Technologies), Cisco (2004–2025).
Honors
- Danfoss Engineering Tomorrow Award 2017 – Nominee.
Pedagogical Qualifications
- Universitetspædagogikum (UP) – Pedagogical competency profile level C, SDU, 2024 (10 ECTS).
- Plus several short-format SDU courses on lecturing, student response systems, and flipped learning (2024).
- Projektansøgning – Projektledelse for forskere og PhD-studerende, SDU, 2020 (2 ECTS).