Carsten Gehling is a pragmatic developer with 13 years of professional experience and a 27-year programming pedigree, specializing in systems integration and making disparate software communicate reliably. He focuses on backend and middleware stacks—C#, MS SQL Server, Elastic Stack, NServiceBus/MassTransit and RabbitMQ—bringing rigorous craftsmanship and a refusal to cut corners to complex integration problems. His career spans startups, agency work and long-term product roles across healthcare, hospitality, streaming and logistics, often building payment and device integrations or data-heavy visualization backends. A serial tinkerer and tool-builder, he created the Jira StopWatch and runs community projects like The Elder Geeks, demonstrating a sustained interest in practical tooling and knowledge sharing. Based in Southern Denmark, he combines lateral problem-solving with deep hands-on experience across many languages and databases, making him a reliable choice for thorny integration challenges.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Course, Project management, Course, Project management at TietgenSkolen
Studentereksamen, Studentereksamen at Viborg Katedralskole
Datamatiker, Bachelor, Datamatiker, Bachelor at EDB skolen Århus Købmandsskole
Contributions:2 releases, 2 commits, 6 pushes in 1 day
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