Kristian Øllegaard
CEO & Co-Founder at Plecto
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolKristian Øllegaard is a Danish entrepreneur and software engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling SaaS businesses and backend systems. As CEO and co-founder of Plecto and now of Fenerum, he combines product-led growth with deep hands-on Python/Django expertise to automate performance and financial workflows for fast-growing companies. He has a strong open-source pedigree—contributing compatibility and backend plugins to well-known Django projects like django-cms and django-health-check—which reflects a focus on robust, production-ready systems. Based in Aarhus, Kristian pairs technical leadership with board-level experience and remains the largest shareholder-turned-chair at Plecto, demonstrating both founder grit and governance acumen. An unexpected strength: he has repeatedly bridged developer work and operational tooling (Celery, RabbitMQ, packaging, monitoring), turning low-level engineering improvements into measurable business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityHHX Business Economics International Economy, HHX Business Economics International Economy at Silkeborg Business College
Danish, English, German
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Github Skills (29)
cms10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
backend10
monitoring9
celery9
caching9
template-engine9
templater9
databases9
database9
disk-cache9
web-cache9
object-cache9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
revsys/django-health-check
Aug 2011 - Jan 2022
a pluggable app that runs a full check on the deployment, using a number of plugins to check e.g. database, queue server, celery processes, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the development of back-end features within the Django health check application. Their work included creating new plugins for different back-end systems like cache, Celery, and database. They also refactored core components, improved the project's packaging, and modified URL patterns.
djangodeploymentdockerrunscelery
django-cms/django-cms
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the Django CMS project by integrating Django 1.4 compatibility. Their work involved modifications to the admin interface, middleware, templates, and settings to align with the older Django version. They also addressed issues related to static file handling, including the removal of deprecated prefixes. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the change list and plugin functionality, including the integration of Django version detection and the adjustment of forms to ensure compatibility.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
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