Daniel Nygaard
Senior Platform Engineer
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolDaniel Nygaard is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Copenhagen with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms. He has progressed from hands-on system development and DevOps to leading cloud engineering and now focuses on improving developer experience at Veo Technologies, where he’s been responsible for video processing pipelines and platform tooling. A founder of several ventures, he applies entrepreneurial pragmatism to platform work—streamlining operations so teams can ship more often and with less friction. His background includes scaling high-traffic e-commerce SaaS, Kubernetes and GitOps-driven deployments, CI/CD automation, observability and MySQL scaling. Comfortable in both leadership and individual-contributor roles, he blends architecture, incident management and developer tooling to reduce cognitive load for engineers. Outside work he builds community-focused tools for Danish badminton, showing a practical bent for solving real-world coordination problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Datalogi, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Datalogi at Aarhus UniversityGymnasial Matematik og Fysik, Gymnasial Matematik og Fysik at Silkeborg HTX
Danish, English
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Github Skills (194)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dansk-badminton-tech/nembadminton
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Holdturnering - nemt og bekymringsfrit
Contributions:6 releases, 66 PRs, 317 pushes in 3 years 2 months
cloningcubingaltium-designerbadminton
dansk-badminton-tech/platform
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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