Mikkel Kjeldsen
Chief Software Engineer at Danske Bank
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMikkel Kjeldsen is a Chief Software Engineer based in Aarhus with 14 years of experience building reliable, user-focused software across finance and retail. He has led backend architecture and technology decisions at large organizations (Salling Group, Danske Bank), driving database migrations, search improvements, and operational cost savings while mentoring teams in modern practices. Comfortable across Java, Python, Rust and Linux tooling, he combines hands-on coding with strategic platform work—having improved build reliability, caching for high-traffic e-commerce, and protobuf-based integrations. He also contributes to open-source projects, improving maintainability and UX of tooling such as a popular Linux web dashboard. Known for clear documentation, pragmatic trade-offs, and teacherly instincts, he smooths onboarding and shortens feedback loops through process and tooling. His work emphasizes making software that helps people while keeping systems simple, observable, and cost-effective.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Aarhus University
Danish, English
Github Skills (14)
datatables10
debug10
javascript10
dashboard10
datatable10
jquery10
code-formatting10
web-content9
webpages9
ui-design9
linux9
refactoring9
html9
css8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tariqbuilds/linux-dash
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
A beautiful web dashboard for Linux
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Mikkel primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and code quality. Their contributions include significant whitespace and comment formatting improvements, aiming for consistent code style across the project. They also made several functional improvements, such as modularizing the dashboard script and fixing refresh button functionality. Furthermore, they addressed several bugs and code inefficiencies to improve the user experience.
web-dashboardlinuxmonitoringdashboardlinux-dash
commonquail/commit-size-distribution
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Graph the distribution of commits' diffstats
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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