Henrik Gemal is a seasoned CTO and product-focused engineering leader with 13+ years building and operating SaaS platforms from startup to scale, currently heading technology at DinnerBooking in Copenhagen. He pairs formal training in computer science and business with deep hands-on experience across LAMP stacks, server operations, CI/CD and offshore team management, often acting as the bridge between sales/support and developers. Henrik’s career spans full lifecycle product work—from writing business cases and requirements to running 24/7 production systems—reflecting a strong bias for operational reliability and continual improvement. He excels at turning business requirements into pragmatic technical architectures and prioritizing user experience while keeping services performant and maintainable. Notably, he built DinnerBooking’s platform from scratch and has long experience with both front-end and back-end engineering, plus leadership of mixed internal and remote teams. His combination of entrepreneurial attitude, communication skills and day-to-day ops ownership makes him unusually effective at shipping and sustaining customer-facing online services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Christianshavns gymnasium
B.Sc, Computer Sciences and Business Administration, Business Economics, Project Management, B.Sc, Computer Sciences and Business Administration, Business Economics, Project Management at Copenhagen Business School
Contributions:1 release, 42 PRs, 114 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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