Hjalte Thor
Head Of Engineering at Planday
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolHjalte Thor is a Head of Engineering based in Copenhagen with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating event-driven, cloud-native systems. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Planday—from Senior Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager and now Head of Engineering—demonstrating steady growth in architecture, delivery and team leadership. Prior experience at Just Eat gave him exposure to high-traffic product environments and customer-facing operations, informing a pragmatic approach to reliability and scalability. Known for marrying technical depth with people leadership, he focuses on building resilient distributed systems and developer teams that can ship safely at scale. An unconventional strength is his background in customer support and supervision early in his career, which sharpens his product empathy and stakeholder communication.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Academy Profession Computer Science, Academy Profession Computer Science at Business Academy AarhusSvendborg Erhvervsskole
English, Danish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
zendesk-api10
fluent-interface10
wrapper10
netcoreapp10
api-client9
api9
zendesk9
csharp8
addon2
buttons2
world-of-warcraft2
player1
replay1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kimho0526/ZendeskApiClient
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
C# Client for working with the Zendesk API
Contributions:11 commits in 10 months
api-clientapizendeskzendesk-apicsharp
hjaltethor/ZendeskApiClient
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
api-clientapizendesknodejs
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