Christian Laustsen
Co-Founder (CTO) at Yaay
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Laustsen is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems and teams, currently co-founding Yaay as CTO to add a preference layer to travel using AI-driven recommendations. He has repeatedly combined hands‑on engineering with organizational growth—scaling teams from tens to hundreds, hiring and mentoring engineers and managers, and owning technical roadmaps across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure. His background spans IoT at Blackbird, distributed GraphQL and Rust systems, and cost‑optimized AWS architectures, alongside running his own consultancy and product experiments at codetalk. An active open‑source contributor, he has integrated Haskell beautifiers into the popular Atom‑Beautify project, reflecting a curiosity for language tooling and developer experience. Based in Copenhagen with an MSc from DTU and exchange studies at KAIST, he pairs rigorous engineering foundations with a knack for turning research and prototype work into production‑grade platforms.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics - Physics - Chemistry, High School Mathematics - Physics - Chemistry at Rødkilde GymnasiumTechnical University of DenmarkMaster of Science in Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering (Exchange), Master of Science in Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering (Exchange) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Danish, German, Korean, Japanese
Stackoverflow
2,040reputation
311kreached
26answers
16questions
Github Skills (14)
atom-editor10
formatter10
beautifier10
formatters10
haskell10
github9
htaccess6
printing6
yesod6
php6
docstrings6
localstack6
python6
image6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Glavin001/atom-beautify
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
:mega: Help Wanted - Looking for Maintainer: https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/issues/2572 | :lipstick: Universal beautification package for Atom editor (:warning: Currently migrating to https://github.com/Unibeautify/ and have very limited bandwidth for Atom-Beautify Issues. Thank you for your patience and understanding :heart: )
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian's commits primarily focused on adding and integrating Haskell beautifiers (hindent, brittany, and stylish-haskell) into the Atom-Beautify project. Their work involved updating the `Beautifiers.html` file to include the new beautifiers and adjusting the configuration to use `stylish-haskell` as the default for Haskell code formatting. They also ran documentation and added examples to support the new features.
patiencemaintainerheartformatterprettifier
Tehnix/playground-ps-graphql
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
Toying with GraphQL in PureScript
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
graphql-toolsgraphiqlgraphqlpurescriptplayground
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