David Olrik
Artifex at OlrikIT
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolDavid Olrik is a pragmatic, automation-first software engineer with 20 years of experience building and migrating mission-critical systems across telecom, cloud, and enterprise environments. A polyglot comfortable in Perl, Python, Go and Rust, he blends deep backend and database expertise (notably Oracle support work in the popular DBIx::Class project) with modern DevSecOps and Kubernetes practices. He has led large migrations, provisioning and billing systems, and developer tooling efforts while coaching teams on agile, TDD and SCM best practices. Based in Copenhagen, he runs OlrikIT as an Artifex focused on cloud automation and continues hands-on development at Fibia. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous engineer who automates repetitive tasks away and surfaces subtle protocol and storage quirks before they become incidents.
20 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Computer Studies, Computer science, Advanced Computer Studies, Computer science at Handelsskolen i BallerupHigher preparatory examination, Danish, English, German, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Music, Arts & Crafts, Higher preparatory examination, Danish, English, German, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Music, Arts & Crafts at Københavns dag & aften seminarium
English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
dbi10
oracle10
dbix-class10
oracles10
perl10
sql10
database-design9
http6
nodejs6
macos6
appstore6
numpy6
ssh6
ansible6
bower6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Perl5/DBIx-Class
Jan 2007 - Mar 2007
GitHub side of the DBIx::Class ( DBIC ) repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to Oracle database support within the DBIx::Class framework. Their work involved creating a new Oracle 8-specific storage class to handle differences in SQL syntax, particularly concerning joins. The user also added support for autoincrementing primary keys and sequence retrieval for Oracle databases. Further contributions included formatting cleanup and merging code from other branches.
dbix-class
davidolrik/davidolrik
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
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