Benjamin Nørgaard
IT Consultant at Lunar
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolBenjamin Nørgaard is an experienced IT consultant and freelance software engineer with 11 years building cloud-native, secure, and developer-friendly platforms across startups and larger enterprises. He specializes in Kubernetes, Go, microservices, and scalable backend and platform engineering, with hands-on experience in platform automation, security (OPA/Styra), and developer productivity tooling. Benjamin has a track record of shipping developer CLIs, Kubernetes operators, and self-service provisioning systems that simplify on-prem and cloud operations and speed developer workflows. He runs his own consultancy (blacksails ApS), has contributed open practices like an OPA-integrated Kubernetes controller at Bankdata, and recently supported internal platform and security efforts at Systematic and Lunar. Based in Aarhus, he combines practical ops experience—from bare metal to GCP—with a pragmatic security mindset and a penchant for exploring new technologies. Outside of work he’s an enthusiast of mechanical keyboards and death metal, a hint at his attention to craft and preference for high-fidelity tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Aarhus University
English, Danish, faroese
Stackoverflow
875reputation
39kreached
10answers
15questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
k8s10
redis-client10
json10
zsh10
php10
devsecops10
python10
oh-my-zsh10
misconfiguration10
git10
kubernetes10
authorization10
kubeadm10
vulnerability-scanners10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
blacksails/dotfiles
Jan 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 7 years 5 months
blacksails/rig
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:201 pushes, 122 branches, 4 tags in 7 months
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