Allan Ebdrup
VP Of Platform
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolAllan Ebdrup is a seasoned technology leader and VP of Platform based in Copenhagen with 14 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products and engineering organizations. He has repeatedly transformed development practices—driving CI/CD, observability, event-driven architectures and automated testing—to deliver high-throughput, cost-efficient web and mobile services. Allan has built and scaled teams from small startups to managing nearly 50 engineers, with hands-on roots as a backend developer (notably implementing a wkhtmltopdf-based /pdf endpoint for html2pdf.it). He emphasizes psychological safety, autonomy and measurable process improvements, and has a track record of cutting defects and boosting productivity through pragmatic engineering leadership. Allan blends entrepreneurial instincts (multiple sold side projects) with enterprise architecture experience dating back to payroll and HR SaaS modernization. He is passionate about nurturing high-performing teams that can operate independently while delivering exceptional user value at scale.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
studentereksamen matematisk, studentereksamen matematisk at Frederikshavn gymnasiumcand. scient (not completed) Computer Science, cand. scient (not completed) Computer Science at Aarhus Universitycand scient (not completed) Computer science, cand scient (not completed) Computer science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Danish, English
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Github Skills (14)
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
wkhtmltopdf10
expressjs9
code-coverage6
quill6
error-handling6
npm6
ads6
stacktrace6
twitter-card6
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apilayer/html2pdf.it
Jun 2012 - May 2019
Webservice for generating pdfs from html
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 88 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Allan primarily focused on developing back-end functionality for the PDF generation service. Their contributions included the initial implementation of the `/pdf` endpoint using `wkhtmltopdf-linux-amd64`, followed by cleanup and output adjustments. They also added functionality to output errors and set timeouts. These changes directly impacted the core functionality of the webservice, improving error handling and overall stability.
webservice
practio/ci
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Command Line Tool for doing Continuous Integration (CI)
Contributions:12 reviews, 36 PRs, 524 pushes in 11 months
travisbuildkitecdcontinuous-integrationcli
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