Summary
Kristian Mandrup is a seasoned technology founder and systems architect with over 16 years of hands-on experience and a 25-year background in full‑stack development through executive leadership. He has led large engineering teams and complex programmes across government and enterprise—shaping SOA platforms at SKAT, modernising payment and frontend platforms at Dunelm, and directing core data upgrades for Danish government systems at Netcompany. As founder of Blueforge Studio he’s building consumer and game infrastructure products, including a Game Asset Server and a 3D voxel MMORPG, blending product vision with engineering delivery. An active open‑source contributor, he added Danish locale support to the ffaker Faker library, improving realistic test data for Danish apps. Comfortable moving between strategy, architecture and code, he combines academic grounding in computer science and business with a pragmatic focus on developer experience and scalable workflows.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
cand.scient.dat, Computer Science, Film and Media, English, cand.scient.dat, Computer Science, Film and Media, English at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Master degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Master degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Copenhagen Business School
English, French, German, Spanish, Danish