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Christian

Hi, I'm Christian! A seasoned software developer, highly interested in the craft of programming and the challenges that arise when programming becomes collaborative.

I'm a Product Developer with more than 10 years experience with:

Sanity

Remote | 1 yr 9 mos

Senior Software Engineer

May 2024–Present ( 1 yr 9 mos)

Open source, visual editing, editor experience, portable text and more. Currently working on the text editor used in the very core of the Sanity Content Operating System: https://github.com/portabletext/editor.

Frigg Tech

Aarhus, Denmark | 8 mos

Lead Frontend Developer

September 2023–April 2024 ( 8 mos)
  • Building a data-rich and data-driven platform used by banks and realtors
  • Bringing my product mindset and front end skill set to a lean and fast-paced start-up
  • Applying my knowledge about monorepos and front end tooling while building a themeable design system that scales across a feature-rich platform

Cactus Communications

Remote | 2 yrs 3 mos

Team Lead

July 2022–August 2023 ( 1 yr 2 mos)
  • Engineering lead on a cross-functional product team
  • Helped build the next generation tools for academic authors to write better manuscripts faster
  • Facilitator of fast-paced and appropriately scoped releases
  • Responsible for conducting biweekly stakeholder demos
  • Overall frontend lead across product teams
  • Creator and maintainer of our multi-team and multi-app monorepo, including the release and deployment pipeline

Senior Frontend Engineer

June 2021–June 2022 ( 1 yr 1 mo)

Stibo DX

Oslo, Norway | 5 yrs 5 mos

Frontend Developer

January 2016–May 2021 ( 5 yrs 5 mos)
  • Platform Engineer in the RnD department
  • Helped build the flagship product CUE from the ground up and into a CMS used by large media groups all over the world
  • Spearheaded multiple front end tech initiatives including a custom plugin system
  • Co-architected a completely new content creation workflow based on an advanced, in-house-built rich text block editor
  • Co-hosted customer workshops and visited customers on premise

Create Inside

Aarhus, Denmark | 1 yr 9 mos

Web Developer

April 2014–December 2015 ( 1 yr 9 mos)
  • Constructed robust and responsive Drupal sites
  • Did early takes on headless Drupal
  • Co-hosted customer Drupal workshops
  • Produced Drupal learning videos and blog posts

Bachelor of Web Development

Business Academy Aarhus
2013–2014

AP Graduate in Multimedia Design and Communication

University College Lillebælt
2011–2013