Summary
Mads Toustrup is an experienced Microsoft-certified software engineer and founder with 12+ years building cloud-native, IoT and microservice solutions across energy, legal, trading and consumer electronics. As owner and senior consultant at madSkills and a recurring external consultant for firms like Systematic, Nel Hydrogen and Bang & Olufsen, he blends hands-on C#/.NET development with architecture design guided by SOLID principles and TDD. He has delivered mission-critical SCADA and reporting systems for wind farms and led cross-team quality initiatives, demonstrating both deep technical craft and team-level influence. Comfortable across managed and unmanaged stacks, Mads frequently applies Azure, serverless patterns and RESTful APIs to make systems scalable and maintainable. He also invests in community building—founding the Ionic Denmark user group—reflecting a drive to share knowledge beyond client engagements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Computer Science, M. Sc., Computer Science at Aalborg University
Aabenraa Gymnasium & HF
University of California Santa Cruz