Kristoffer Smedt is a multidisciplinary software and engineering leader with a PhD in computational plasma physics and eight years of hands-on experience delivering data-driven microservice architectures and technical leadership across defence and consulting sectors. As CTO of SIMA.DK and former Technical Lead at BAE Systems DI, he combines systems-thinking with pragmatic software engineering—advocating rigorous design and testing to enable rapid, maintainable change. Comfortable across electronics design, structural analysis and custom scientific Python simulation tooling, he thrives as an autodidactic generalist who bridges research-grade modelling and production data engineering. Known for optimizing the define-design-test-code feedback loop, he focuses on elegant, testable solutions that scale across teams and programmes. Based in Kolding, Denmark, he accelerates cross-disciplinary innovation by applying academic rigour to real-world product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at University of Leeds
Kris' Plasma Particle Simulator is a kinetic toy-code for plasma and ES simulation, with the ultimate goal of boasting a full-fledged Particle-in-Cell solver incorporating the novel Boris-SDC algorithm for particle time-integration.
Contributions:273 commits, 49 PRs, 256 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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