Frej Soya
Lead Engineer at Apply Engineering
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolFrej Soya is a seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Lead Engineer at Complexio in Copenhagen after roles as Engineering Manager and senior engineer across Europe. He combines hands-on backend and systems engineering with people leadership, having led teams at Maersk, eToro, Nomadic Labs and others to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions. Known for valuing simplicity and human-centered tech, he bridges technical strategy and day-to-day delivery to keep teams productive and focused. Frej has applied his craft both as an individual contributor and manager across fintech, logistics, and blockchain-adjacent domains, demonstrating adaptability to regulated and high-throughput environments. He holds MSc/BSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen and brings a long track record of shipping reliable systems while mentoring engineers into stronger technical leaders. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prioritizes people and clear, maintainable systems over technical showmanship.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc BSc Computer science, MSc BSc Computer science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenHerlev Gymnasium
English, Danish
Github Skills (163)
benchmark10
dashboard10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-cluster10
multicore10
azcopy10
dune10
idris10
jbuilder10
data-visualization10
developer-tools10
azure-ad-b2c10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
frejsoya/ocaml-kafka
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
OCaml bindings for Kafka
Contributions:26 pushes, 8 branches in 21 days
frejsoya/dune
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
A composable build system for OCaml.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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