Kim Poulsen
Sr. Manager Embedded Software at WSAudiology
Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Poulsen is a seasoned embedded software and DevOps leader with 13 years of experience driving teams from blank-page prototypes to regulated medical-device submissions and high-scale R&D transformations. He combines deep technical roots in ASIC and embedded systems with pragmatic Agile and SAFe-driven program design, having introduced JIRA/Confluence to thousands of users and scaled multicultural teams to 20+ engineers. Known for transparent, democratic leadership and a relentless “always improve” mindset, he builds psychologically safe teams that deliver on time while reducing cycle time and technical debt. Kim’s hands-on pedigree includes IC design, toolchain automation and open-source contributions to projects like the Minetest technic mod, reflecting a blend of low-level engineering curiosity and product-focused delivery. He is equally comfortable shaping budgets and roadmaps as he is sketching firmware architecture or test automation, and has a track record of institutionalizing specialist career paths and Agile practices across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc.E.E. (Hons.) Electronics, B.Sc.E.E. (Hons.) Electronics at Aarhus UniversityHighschool Matematisk Student, Highschool Matematisk Student at Tønder Gymnasium og HF
German, English
Github Skills (4)
minetest10
lua10
game-development9
recipe7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
minetest-mods/technic
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Technic mod for Luanti/Minetest
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the "technic" mod for Minetest, focusing on implementing and refining features for a CNC milling machine. Their work included adding new milling programs and refining existing ones. They also made changes to solar arrays and power distribution mechanics. Additionally, they added and modified recipes for the Grinder and for ingots.
minetestluanti-modminetest-mod
kpoppel/homeassistant-eforsyning
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Home Assistant module enabling retrieval of regional heating data from eForsyning.
Contributions:38 releases, 3 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 11 months
home-assistantheatingenergyhacshomeassistant
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