Summary
Henrik Kirk is an assistant professor and seasoned software developer with 17 years of experience building backend and mobile systems that power real-time data and business growth. He blends academic teaching and research at Aarhus School of Engineering with hands-on consultancy through his company Busywait.org, delivering end-to-end solutions in Scala, Play, Android, MongoDB and cloud platforms. His background includes scaling content and realtime services for high-volume customers (newspapers at Visiolink, clinical logistics at Cetrea) and optimizing live results for sports platforms, showing a consistent focus on performance and reliability. Comfortable across full-stack, mobile and backend domains, he pairs deep technical craft with practical product sense and a knack for turning research insights into production-ready systems. An unexpected thread through his career is frequent cross-pollination of industry-grade engineering practices into teaching, giving students exposure to real-world architectural and operational challenges.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
coursera
2009 Cand. Scient, Computer Science; Computer Science, 2009 Cand. Scient, Computer Science; Computer Science at Aarhus university
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Cand Scient. Computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Cand Scient. Computer science at Aarhus Universitet
Elbæk
Viby Amtsgymnasium
Danish, English