Summary
Technology executive, now Director of Engineering and AI for EMEA at AXON Networks, where I own the organisation behind a cloud-native platform that turns network telemetry into operational insight and built the AI/ML team that puts LLM-driven agents on the live streams. Before AXON Networks I ran around 50-person engineering organisations as Director at Lunar and VP at Scrive, and held the full CTO remit at eSignatur, leading agile transformation, owning product, and lifting engineering practice. Earlier, at DFDS, I built the developer-platform department from 3 to 20 and drove a business-wide move to cloud-native that reached around 200 engineers and 500+ microservices on Kubernetes, from zero in three years. The through-line is simple: I tend to leave an organisation a maturity stage further along than I found it.
Credentials
- Set and executed technology strategy with P&L responsibility across product, engineering, QA, and operations, with commercial and pre-sales input.
- Owned the full CTO remit at eSignatur: product and technical roadmap, security, compliance, cloud strategy, and vendor management.
- Built the AI function and target cloud architecture at AXON Networks, putting LLM-driven agents on live telemetry.
- Led organisation-wide Agile and SCRUM transformations, from around 20 teams at Ørsted to the ways of working at DFDS and Lunar.
- Product owner at Ørsted and eSignatur, and product leader at DFDS (CSPO).
- VP of Service Operations and CTO of eSignatur inside a 200+ person, Vitruvian-backed business at Scrive.
- Led and ran around 50-person engineering organisations at Scrive and Lunar.
- Built the investor pitch deck at Lunar, setting out the value proposition and growth potential.
- Advisory Board Member at Heeplink, 2022 to 2024.
- Member of the Scalers CTO/CPO network since 2021.
- Scaled the DFDS developer and platform department from 3 to 20 and drove a 200-engineer move to cloud-native microservices.
- Selected for the DFDS Horizon management talent programme, out of 200 nominees.
- Author of a public framework on engineering leadership and platform operating models.
- HD in Business Administration and Management (CBS), backing the commercial side of technology leadership.
Experience
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Director of Engineering & AI (EMEA)
AXON Networks
Lead the AXON Orchestrator organisation in EMEA, around 40 people, plus supporting integration of 70 across Europe. Own the engineering and AI behind a cloud-native platform that turns network telemetry into operational insight at up to 50,000 datapoints per second per device, and built the AI/ML team that puts LLM-driven agents on those live streams. Set the target cloud architecture, led the move from Java to Go, and built a continuous-delivery culture with clear ownership, holding one coherent architecture through post-acquisition integration.
- Own the engineering and AI organisation behind a cloud-native platform that turns network telemetry into operational insight at up to 50,000 datapoints per second per device.
- Defined the target cloud architecture and built a new AI/ML team for LLM-driven agents that act on live telemetry rather than on stale snapshots.
- Scaled the real-time data pipelines so AI and LLM models read high-frequency streams directly.
- Set up the team and built Neura, a GenAI agent embedded in AXON Networks' products, and brought it into pre-sales.
- Built a team and led the organisation's move from Java to Go, with training and guides, for performance and maintainability.
- Set up a continuous-delivery culture with clear ownership, integrated a design and UX workflow, and launched a third-party device team.
- Led the integration of the ACS system into the platform and kept one architecture coherent through post-acquisition integration.
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Advisory Board Member
Heeplink
Advisory role for a digital platform matching skilled people with the projects that need them.
- Advised on technology direction and product strategy for the matching platform.
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Director of Technology, Developer & Platform Experience
Lunar A/S
Led Lunar's developer and platform experience department, around 50 people across 5 teams at a Nordic challenger bank. Ran it on OKRs with Team Topologies and domain-driven design, enabling self-service for engineering, data, and security while holding continuous regulatory compliance.
- Shaped the developer-and-platform department, redefining its roles and reporting lines with Team Topologies and domain-driven design.
- Set up OKRs so the department worked to clear outcomes, including platform robustness, with continuous regulatory compliance.
- Enabled self-service and x-as-a-service for developers, data engineers, security, and the wider business.
- Led a new data platform project on Google Cloud, and built the investor pitch deck centred on it.
- Set up the project to consolidate Lunar's eID brokers while holding continuous compliance.
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VP of Service Operations & CTO of eSignatur
Scrive
Took on Scrive's service operations after it acquired eSignatur, retaining ownership of eSignatur and leading around 50 people across 5 teams (Firefighters, QA, DevOps, SRE, and e-signature) within a 200+ person, Vitruvian-backed business. Cut yearly operational cost by around 10% through AWS and database optimisation, stood up an EU-hosted version on Kubernetes for GDPR, drove ISO 27001 certification, and grew three team leads into managers.
- Cut yearly operational cost by around 10% by optimising AWS and database IOPS.
- Set up an EU-hosted version of the application on Kubernetes to meet GDPR.
- Led preparation and a successful audit for ISO 27001 certification.
- Set up a proper incident-management process for the on-call teams.
- Set the direction for the QA department.
- Converted three team leads into managers through coaching and mentorship.
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Chief Technology Officer
eSignatur
Led eSignatur, a small Danish e-signature company, as CTO, holding product ownership of the e-signature product and owning developers, QA, and support plus security, compliance, and the product and technical roadmap. Set the engineering practices and a costed cloud-adoption plan, drove ISAE 3000 certification, managed sourcing partners, and brought technical and product depth into pre-sale and customer follow-up meetings.
- Held product ownership of the e-signature product, owning the product and technical roadmap, and ran its support function.
- Drove eSignatur to ISAE 3000 certification.
- Devised a cloud-adoption plan using a cloud-native maturity matrix.
- Set up the development organisation and its engineering practices, with Azure DevOps for an optimal process flow.
- Managed and onboarded sourcing partners, covering vendor selection, contracts, and SLAs.
- Brought technical and product expertise into pre-sale meetings and regular customer follow-up meetings.
- Improved collaboration and productivity by leading Agile adoption, and coached and mentored the team while closing skill gaps with training.
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Head of Department, Developer & Platform Experience
DFDS
Built the company's developer-platform capability from the ground up and led the business-wide move to cloud-native, scaling the core department from 3 to 20 people over three years. Oversaw cloud operations with a focus on security and cost-efficiency, and set the architectural direction and operating standards that let teams build and run their own services on the platform.
- Drove cloud-native microservices adoption across the business, enabling around 200 engineers to build for the cloud.
- Operated 500+ microservices in Kubernetes within three years, starting from zero.
- Built an internal developer platform with self-service and golden paths, treating the platform as a product (Team Topologies, Platform as Product).
- Oversaw cloud operations with a focus on security and cost-efficiency, on an event-driven architecture built around Kafka.
- Led the Autonomous Ports team, building the software to handle driverless trucks moving through DFDS ports, on .NET Core.
- Set up a software team to take ML models into production for logistics, working with the AI/ML department.
- Selected for the DFDS Horizon management talent programme, out of 200 nominees.
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Head of Department, Customer Experience (CMS & Booking)
DFDS
Led the customer-experience department behind DFDS's web, CMS, and booking, scaling it from 5 to 25 people across 5 teams. Evolved the architecture towards modern, responsive web, trained product owners, ScrumMasters, and engineers, brought design and UX into delivery, and moved the teams onto continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Released DFDS's first responsive website on SharePoint 2013 and brought in zero-downtime deployment.
- Then moved the customer-facing architecture to a headless CMS on React and Contentful with serverless functions.
- Delivered new corporate websites for the freight, logistics, and group businesses on dfds.com.
- Added A/B and multivariate testing across the web teams, brought design and UX into the delivery flow, and shipped on continuous delivery with infrastructure as code.
- Led the "DFDS Way" of working and rolled out the development mission via roadshows.
- Technical advisor on a new SaaS intranet for employee communication.
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Product Owner, SCRUM Master & IT Architect
Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy)
Product owner and technical lead across the energy IT estate, running SCRUM with distributed teams in Denmark and a 100-person offshore development centre in Asia, and setting architecture as the business modernised.
- Designed event-driven integrations and helped deliver PowerHub, a real-time Virtual Power Plant that monitors around 20 distributed energy assets and runs them as one.
- Wrote the technical tender specification for a new smart-grid Distribution Management System.
- Led a five-person team as team lead and SCRUM Master, running the SMS messaging platform that handles millions of SMS a year to Ørsted's units and customers, and migrating the gateway with a zero-downtime production cutover.
- Owned delivery of GIS and digital web platforms on ESRI as product owner, with distributed teams in Denmark and Malaysia on TFS, test-driven development, and continuous integration, delivering the projects on time and under budget.
- Implemented SCRUM across around 20 teams, created a Story Points estimation model, and coached the teams, SCRUM Masters, and new product owners through the change.
- Put a heavy focus on engineering practices throughout, building good CI and CD into every product so continuous delivery was the default.
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Software Developer & Project Manager
Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy)
Built a new SMS gateway part-time while studying for my master's, using an IT project model and early agile practices.
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Software Development Intern
Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy)
Worked on automated metering over SMS as part of my bachelor studies.
Impact
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I lead with a clear purpose, create room for people to master their craft, and build organisations that can act on their own through autonomy and delegation. I start from the business strategy and work back to the technology roadmap, so the engineering bets line up with where the company is going. The work has usually meant changing how teams operate, not just what they ship, through agile transformation and stronger engineering practice. Most of what I build is there to make good outcomes repeatable rather than heroic: self-service platforms, and measurement tied to real business results instead of activity. I meet an organisation at the maturity stage it is actually at and move it forward one deliberate step at a time, toward automation and AI-driven operations. That is the work at AXON Networks now, carrying a modern engineering culture into agents that act on live network data.
Writing
Selected Work
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Building an AI platform on real-time network telemetry
Stood up the AI/ML capability and the real-time data architecture behind AXON Networks' orchestration platform.
- 50,000 datapoints/s per device
- ~40 in EMEA, 70 across Europe
- Java to Go
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Neura: a GenAI agent in AXON Networks' products
Set up the team and built Neura, a GenAI agent embedded in AXON Networks' products, and brought it into pre-sales.
- GenAI agent shipped into AXON Networks products
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A developer and platform experience function at Lunar
Led Lunar's developer and platform experience department and enabled self-service for engineering, data, and security.
- ~50 people across 5 teams
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AWS cost optimisation and an EU-hosted version at Scrive
Cut yearly operational cost by around 10% by optimising AWS and database IOPS, and stood up an EU-hosted version of the application on Kubernetes to meet GDPR.
- Around 10% yearly operational cost cut
- EU-hosted version on Kubernetes (GDPR)
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Moving a ferry and logistics business to cloud-native
Built DFDS's developer-platform department and drove the company-wide move to microservices on Kubernetes, from zero.
- 500+ microservices on Kubernetes
- 3 to 20 person department
- ~200 engineers cloud-native
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An organisation-wide Agile and SCRUM transformation at Ørsted
Led the move to SCRUM across around 20 teams and built a 100-person offshore development centre in Asia.
- SCRUM across 20 teams
- 100-person offshore development centre
- Coached SCRUM Masters and new Product Owners
Expertise
- Engineering leadership and organisational scaling
- Agile transformation and ways of working
- Technology strategy, product ownership, and commercial leadership
- AI/ML, GenAI, and LLM product integration, including local LLMs
- Cloud and real-time data architecture
- Event-driven systems and microservices at scale
- DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and service operations
- Coaching, mentoring, and team development
Education
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MSc, Computer Science & Engineering
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- Focused on efficient software and hardware solutions for complex technical problems, covering systems analysis, modelling, and implementation.
- Notable courses: Windows Programming in C# and .NET, and Advanced Databases.
- Master thesis with DONG Energy: External Short Messaging Entity, an SMS gateway.
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HD, Business Administration & Management
Copenhagen Business School
- A part-time diploma in two parts: a general Graduate Certificate in business administration, then a specialised Graduate Diploma.
- Studied two evenings a week for the commercial grounding behind technology leadership.
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BEng, Information Technology
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- Focused on complex digital systems.
- Bachelor project with DONG Energy: an application to monitor SMS communication.
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High School (Mathematics)
Øregård Gymnasium
Certifications & Networks
- Advisory Board Member, Heeplink (2022 to 2024)
- Nova Pro Talent Network (2011 to Present)
- Scalers CTO/CPO Network (2021 to Present)
- Management 3.0 (2015)
- Certified SCRUM Product Owner (CSPO)
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- IT Architecture Foundation, Danish IT (DIT)
Publications & Honours
Voluntary Leadership
Sea Scout Leader, Det Danske Spejderkorps
A lifelong sea scout. I teach children and young people seamanship, sailing, and scouting, and develop them into young leaders. This has run alongside my whole career and shaped how I coach and grow people.
Instructor, PLAN leadership courses (Det Danske Spejderkorps)
Lead national leadership courses for 12 to 16 year-olds, with a focus on sailing, helping young people grow into stronger leaders.
Blå Sommer 2009, national scout camp
Co-created a sailing activity and coded an SMS game for scouts to play. Around 400 scouts came through our activity each day over five days.
SØ-landslejr, sea scout national camp
Helped organise the camp and run activities for participants.
Football coach
Coached children and young people in soccer.
Vice-Chairman, Polyteknisk Forening (DTU student organisation)
Led internal management, board communication, and strategy implementation for the student organisation at DTU.
Student tutor, DTU
Tutored first-year students.
Personal Details
- 4 September 1982
- Danish
- Married
Interests
- Golf
- Soccer, following the game
- NFL, following the game
- Home automation and hobby coding
- Fitness and running
- Hunting
- Sailing
- Family time and the outdoors