Karina Nielsen
Chief Financial Officer at Danish Medicines Agency
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolKarina Nielsen is a seasoned finance and technology leader with over 11 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Financial Officer at the Danish Medicines Agency. Her background blends financial stewardship with IT operations—she previously led IT administration at Rigshospitalet, overseeing administration, economics, programme and service level management. Based in Copenhagen, she pairs strategic budgeting and governance with a deep understanding of technology delivery and cloud architecture (noted in her GitHub bio as a Cloud Architect & Technology Advisor). Karina’s career shows a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that helps bridge finance, compliance, and technical teams in regulated public-sector environments. She trained at Aarhus University and brings institutional memory and pragmatic decision-making from long tenures in Danish healthcare and government. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex technical initiatives into auditable financial plans that align with organizational priorities.
11 years of coding experience
Aarhus University
Github Skills (119)
asp-net-core10
design-patterns10
asp-net10
consul10
internal-developer-platform10
istio10
orchestration10
microservices10
cloud-native10
k8s10
opa10
service-mesh10
ux-design10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sangramrath/meshery
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Meshery, the cloud native manager
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 1 month
sangramrath/workshops
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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