Michael Mortensen
Senior Manager, Head Of AI Engineering at Rådet for Digital Sikkerhed
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Mortensen is a Senior Manager and Head of AI Engineering with 16 years of experience building secure, compliant platforms for critical financial infrastructure in Denmark. He leads Bankdata’s DevAI program, designing strategy, governance, and paved paths that enable over 1,000 employees to adopt AI responsibly across development, legacy modernization, automation, and agentic solutions. Combining a PhD in Computer Science with deep expertise in data mining, cryptography, and security, he bridges research rigor and pragmatic engineering to deliver compliant-by-default AI tooling. He previously shaped decentralized authorization and DevSecOps platforms using technologies like Open Policy Agent and has repeatedly moved between hands-on technical roles and product leadership. As a board member of the Danish Council for Digital Security, he influences national policy on AI, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure—an uncommon blend of technical leadership and public-sector impact. Colleagues describe him as a strategist who prioritizes developer productivity while keeping regulation and security central to innovation.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityVisiting PhD Fellow, Computer Science, Visiting PhD Fellow, Computer Science at Brown UniversityMath STX, Math STX at Holstebro Gymnasium & HF
English, Danish
Github Skills (5)
python3
django3
tree-traversal3
traversal2
pre-order1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
bwallace/crowd-sourced-ebm
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 6 months
django-mptt/django-mptt
Sep 2009 - Sep 2009
Utilities for implementing a modified pre-order traversal tree in django.
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
pythondjangomodifiedtree-traversaltraversal
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.