Anders Søgaard
Head Of Development at Grafikr A/S
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolAnders Søgaard is a pragmatic engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling web products, currently serving as Head of Development at Grafikr in Aarhus. He evolved from CEO of a startup to lead developer and now heads development, blending entrepreneurial insight with hands-on technical direction. Anders contributes to open-source, notably backend work on the popular Statamic CMS where he improved core PHP controllers and modifiers, showing attention to framework internals and developer ergonomics. He focuses on pragmatic backend architecture, documentation, and maintaining reliable integrations between systems. Colleagues describe him as a developer-first manager who still commits code and mentors teams through delivery challenges. His background in business-focused secondary education and startup leadership gives him a strong mix of commercial sense and technical execution.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HHX, Classic, A, HHX, Classic, A at Svendborg Handelsgymnasium
Danish, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (12)
cms10
php10
laravel10
composer10
package10
compose10
laravel-mix10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
graphql6
wordpress-graphql6
wpgraphql6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
statamic/cms
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
The core Laravel CMS Composer package
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 1 comment in 27 days
Contributions summary:Anders primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Statamic CMS. Their commits demonstrate proficiency in PHP by modifying core files like `ActionController.php`, `CoreModifiers.php`, `FormController.php`, and several other crucial files. Key contributions include using Symfony responses, optimizing imports, updating documentation, and modifying core modifiers.
cmsssgprestashop-modulelaravel10composer
andershagbard/Shopify-JS
Sep 2017 - Jan 2021
JavaScript API for Shopify JSON endpoints
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
apijavascriptendpointsjavascript-apijson
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