Esben Gaarsmand
CTO at Vitec MV
Odense, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolEsben Gaarsmand is a pragmatic CTO with 14 years of hands-on software and mobile engineering experience, now leading Vitec MV’s technical direction and international product teams. He blends a developer’s instincts with leadership skills learned as a founder and technical lead, prioritizing long-term goals, preparation, and asking the right questions to unblock teams. His background spans Android and iOS product delivery, UX/cross-functional team management, and teaching cloud and distributed systems—skills he uses to mentor colleagues and elevate engineering practices. Esben values trust, work–life balance, and open collaboration, treating ideas and code as shared assets to be iterated on. A lifelong learner with a Master’s in Robot System Engineering, he is equally comfortable in technical deep dives and shaping strategy. An interesting detail: he has bridged academia and industry through teaching roles while running freelance Android projects, giving him a rare mix of classroom clarity and product-focused pragmatism.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Robot System Engineering, Master Robot System Engineering at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
English, Danish, German, Japanese
Stackoverflow
28,024reputation
3.7mreached
479answers
75questions
google-maps
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android-studio
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android-fragments
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animation
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audio
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eclipse
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Github Skills (48)
android-fragments10
barcode-scanner10
audio10
android10
backgrounds10
animation9
translation9
text-recognition9
radio-buttons9
google-maps9
android-layout9
android-studio9
broadcast-receiver9
eclipse9
face-detection8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thgis/TCP-android-client
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:21 commits in 3 months
androidknights/androidknights-site
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 months
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