Christian Clausen
Founder at Merrymake
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Clausen is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience blending hands-on systems work, technical coaching, and product-minded leadership from Aarhus, Denmark. He built Merrymake after roles as a Technical Agile Coach and senior consultant, bringing together delivery coaching and pragmatic engineering. His early work at INRIA on the widely used Coccinelle project shows deep backend and compiler-like expertise—debugging engines, extending parsing/unparsing, and adding C++ namespace and min/max operator support. Christian’s background in programming languages (Master’s from Aarhus) and teaching roles reflects a strong foundation in formal methods and functional programming, including Coq-driven coursework. He’s comfortable navigating both code-level complexity and team-level process improvements, often turning research-grade tooling knowledge into practical engineering outcomes. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges academic rigor and startup pragmatism, quietly improving core systems rather than seeking the spotlight.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Programming Languages, Master's Degree, Computer Science, Programming Languages at Aarhus Universitet
Danish, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
c-language10
text-parsing10
cprogramming-language10
parsing10
c1110
refactor9
debug9
refactoring9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coccinelle/coccinelle
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
Source code of the Coccinelle project (mirror of the main Coccinelle repository located at Inria)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on debugging and improving the code base. This included resolving issues related to exceptions and bugs within the engine. The user also refactored code and added support for new features such as min/max operators and C++ namespace syntax, showcasing an understanding of the project's underlying architecture and coding standards. The contributions extended to parsing and unparsing of C code.
inriacoccinelle
mist-cloud-eu/mist-cli
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
The command-line interface used for administrative tasks in mist-cloud
Contributions:26 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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