Bjørn Sørensen
VP Of Engineering at Understory
Lemming, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolBjørn Sørensen is a pragmatic VP of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently leading engineering at Understory after a multi-year technology leadership tenure at Lunar. He blends full-stack development chops with systems-level backend work—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Backstage, go-swagger and grpc-node where he improved proxy hot-reload, graceful shutdowns, and TypeScript typings. Known for challenging the status quo, he thrives in complex, fast-moving environments and prioritizes team growth through empathetic coaching. His background spans embedded electronics and studio engineering, giving him a rare mix of hardware intuition and product-focused software architecture. Based in Denmark, he pairs technical depth with a founder’s mindset from running small businesses earlier in his career. Colleagues describe him as someone who gets energized by seeing people succeed and by shipping practical, developer-friendly tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Adgangseksamen til Ingeniøruddannelserne Ingeniørvidenskab, Adgangseksamen til Ingeniøruddannelserne Ingeniørvidenskab at Aarhus UniversityBachelorgrad Informationsteknologi, Bachelorgrad Informationsteknologi at Engineering College of AarhusElektronikfagtekniker Elektronikfagtekniker, Elektronikfagtekniker Elektronikfagtekniker at EUC Midt/Mercantec
English, Danish
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Github Skills (26)
configuration-management10
typescript10
swagger10
swagger-codegen10
backstage10
go10
api10
typescript-types10
golang10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
grpc10
expressjs9
javascript9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 44 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Bjørn primarily contributed to the `proxy-backend` plugin within the Backstage project, focusing on improving its configuration management. They added hot reloading capabilities to the proxy configuration, allowing changes to take effect without server restarts. Additionally, the user implemented a fix for rendering HTML descriptions in dark mode within the API documentation, enhancing usability. Further contributions involved upgrading dependencies and refactoring code for readability.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
grpc/grpc-node
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
gRPC for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 36 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Bjørn contributed TypeScript typings, fixing typos and improving the documentation for the gRPC-node project. They worked on the core native package, specifically focusing on improving the type definitions within the `index.d.ts` file. These changes included modifications to the `grpc-native-core` package to enhance its functionality and provide better support for TypeScript users. Additionally, they fixed several type links and removed wrongly encoded spaces to improve code readability.
node-jsgrpcgrpc-webnodejstypescript
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