Mikkel Christiansen
Managing Director at Dansk Hårdttræ Savværk A/S
Kruså, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolMikkel Christiansen is a pragmatic managing director and former founder with 14 years of hands-on experience bridging manufacturing, logistics and software-driven process improvements. Now running a small Danish sawmill, he applies an engineering mindset—rooted in a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and an MBA—to optimize operations, supply chains and documentation flows. Previously he built and supported logistics and site-handover systems for heavy-industry clients, led production teams at Grundfos and Brisan Turbo, and consulted on continuous improvement using the 20 Keys framework. An active contributor to Haskell web projects like yesod and wai, he brings real-world production discipline to open-source backend work, focusing on modernization, dependency updates and robust session/middleware behavior. His background as a platoon leader and cross-functional trainer hints at practical leadership under pressure and a knack for translating complex operational needs into reliable technical and managerial solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General at University of the WitwatersrandPGDBA, Business Administration, PGDBA, Business Administration at Aarhus UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Industrial Engineering at Engineering College of CopenhagenSecond Lieutenant, Motorized Infantry, Second Lieutenant, Motorized Infantry at Danish Army Combat School
English, Danish, German, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (15)
web-framework10
yesod10
middleware10
haskell10
ghc10
backend9
back-end-development9
http9
wxwidgets6
purescript6
hex6
persistent6
io6
sql6
postgresql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/wai
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
Haskell Web Application Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikkel primarily contributed to the Haskell web application interface, making improvements to existing middleware and functionality. Their work included adding features like X-Forwarded-Proto support and rewriting root path functionality. Furthermore, the user refactored code to remove compiler warnings and updated dependencies for enhanced performance and compatibility.
webframeworkhaskellweb-applicationwebapp
yesodweb/yesod
Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mikkel primarily contributed to the Haskell web framework, `yesod`. Their commits focused on modernizing the codebase by removing deprecated functions, unused imports, and compiler warnings. They also updated dependencies to accommodate changes in newer GHC versions. Furthermore, the user made improvements in session management and removed unused Applicative imports.
apirestfulhaskellframeworkwebframework
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