Dan Achen
Senior Engineer at the LEGO Group
Kjellerup, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolDan Achen is a seasoned senior engineer and tech leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently shaping engineering at the LEGO Group. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated through contributions to well-known open-source PHP projects like CodeIgniter and Laravel Cashier—with a pragmatic focus on software quality, security (PCI DSS), and business-aligned delivery. Dan has repeatedly built and matured engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and retail, hiring and coaching teams to raise productivity and ship reliable APIs and consumer-facing apps at scale. He excels at translating product needs into modern architectures and DevOps practices on AWS/Azure, and is particularly effective at embedding SecDevOps and compliance into fast-moving teams. Notably, his work has driven measurable operational improvements such as ERP integrations that reduced manual work by 80% and running million-user mobile platforms that process tens of millions of transactions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
N/A
Danish, English
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Github Skills (32)
api-rest10
billing10
back-end-development10
stripe10
api-design10
restful-api10
laravel-mix10
htaccess10
apache10
laravel10
php10
mod-rewrite10
rest-api10
codeigniter10
mysql9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chriskacerguis/codeigniter-restserver
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
A fully RESTful server implementation for CodeIgniter using one library, one config file and one controller.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on maintaining and updating the CodeIgniter REST server. Their commits include updating the core CodeIgniter files, fixing bugs, and ensuring compatibility. They also made changes to the REST controller, potentially to enhance functionality and address reported issues. The user also contributed to improving the codebase's consistency and made small edits, such as updating the change log.
restful-servercodeignitercontrollerrestfulconfig-file
laravel/cashier-stripe
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Laravel Cashier provides an expressive, fluent interface to Stripe's subscription billing services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the Laravel Cashier Stripe integration. They implemented features, such as enabling dynamic loading of the Stripe model and added methods related to subscription management, including the ability to apply coupons. The user also addressed code styling issues, and performed general cleanup tasks. Their contributions centered on the core functionality of the package, with the aim of improving stability, and maintainability.
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