Kasper Hermansen
Data Platform Architect
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolKasper Hermansen is a Data Platform Architect with 9 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, distributed systems with a strong emphasis on DevSecOps and developer experience. He builds end-to-end platforms that scale to thousands or millions of users, having led data platform and authentication infrastructure work at Lunar and now shaping data strategy at Understory. An active open-source contributor and maintainer, Kasper upstreamed a Rust SDK for the popular Dagger runtime and improved its core build/download mechanisms. He prefers pragmatic stacks and solid off-the-shelf tools over bespoke complexity, and enjoys self-hosting Kubernetes and distributed compute stacks in his spare time. Comfortable moving between low-level security concerns (MitID/HSM work) and high-level platform design, he excels where infrastructure, data, and security intersect to deliver measurable business value. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, he combines hands-on engineering with clear product-focused metrics and tooling decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomingeniør Software Teknologi (IKT), Diplomingeniør Software Teknologi (IKT) at Aarhus UniversityGymnasieeksamen Naturvidenskab, Gymnasieeksamen Naturvidenskab at Aarhus Gymnasium
Danish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (8)
rust10
cicd10
build-automation9
devops9
container9
docker8
dockers8
go4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dagger/dagger
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 1 commit, 34 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kasper contributed to the core functionality of the Dagger runtime, enhancing its build process. They added support for Rust within the "universe" and refactored downloader code, implementing functionalities to download and extract the Dagger CLI archive, including implementing checksum verification and download. The user also made improvements to the internal codebase, including allowing for dead code and implementing changes to support engine integration.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-testingbuildkitdeployment
kjuulh/gitnow
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:169 pushes, 115 branches, 10 tags in 6 months
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