Michael Ringgaard
Founder And CEO at Ringgaard Research ApS
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ringgaard is a seasoned software leader and founder with 30+ years in systems and software engineering and 12 years in senior technical roles, now leading Ringgaard Research ApS. He spent over a decade at Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, bringing deep expertise in backend systems, code organization, and modularity. His open-source contributions to prominent projects like SLING demonstrate practical focus on stability and maintainable architecture—refactoring core libraries and fixing subtle macros and flow logic. Michael blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership from prior chief architect and system developer roles, making him equally comfortable in low-level system details and company strategy. Based in Central Denmark, he pairs a master’s in computer science with an entrepreneurial drive to turn research-grade ideas into production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversitetHasseris Gymnasium
Github Skills (4)
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c-language10
software-design9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/sling
Apr 2017 - May 2020
SLING - A natural language frame semantics parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 268 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focus on adding license files to the jit library and refactoring the jit library to be independent of base/types.h, showing a focus on code organization and modularity within the project's core components. Further, the user fixed a bug in the CHECK_OK macro and made updates to the flow module, which suggests involvement in improving the stability and functionality of the codebase. Additionally, the user worked on updating connector links in a flow merge.
nlpknowledge-representationnatural-language-understandingframesemantics
ringgaard/sling
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
SLING - A natural language frame semantics parser
Contributions:2165 commits, 3 PRs, 1986 pushes in 5 years 10 months
nlpknowledge-representationnatural-language-understandingframesemantics
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