Morten Christensen
Chairman Of The Board at Apparateq
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMorten Christensen is a technology executive and board leader with a foundation in theoretical mathematics and solid-state physics who has spent over two decades designing and delivering tele- and data-communication systems across consumer, professional and scientific domains. He combines hands-on expertise in high-performance multicore packet processing, TCP/IP protocols and 10GbE C++ systems with strong product and technical management—bringing CI, automated testing and DevOps into historically hardware-centric organisations. As Chairman at Apparateq and a software scientist at the European Spallation Source, he bridges board-level strategy and low-level system optimisation, having authored RFC4541 and contributed to standards work at IEEE, IETF and IEC. He has led cross-border R&D integrations and product launches (including 100Gb/s test products), holds board experience with a NASDAQ-listed company, and is a Harvard Business School Pasteur Programme alumnus. An inventor with patents and deep experience in high-speed data acquisition and metrics-driven development, he is as comfortable arguing architecture with kernel-level engineers as he is presenting strategy to boards.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Solid State Physics, PhD, Solid State Physics at University of CopenhagenManagement, Management at DIEU Board ManagementBusiness analysis, strategy, innovation, negotiations, Business analysis, strategy, innovation, negotiations at Harvard Business SchoolEBA (selected courses), Business law, Management and Marketing, EBA (selected courses), Business law, Management and Marketing at Engingeering managementM.Sc, Physics, Applied Mathematics, M.Sc, Physics, Applied Mathematics at Technical University of DenmarkEconomics, Economics at DIEU Basic EconomicsManagement, Management at DIEU Management Course
Danish, English, German, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (55)
udp10
ess10
kafka-producer10
detectors10
histogram10
tracks10
pong10
pipeline10
data-acquisition10
act10
software-design9
kicad9
scientific-visualization9
kafka-topic8
cad8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ess-dmsc/essdaq
May 2018 - Feb 2026
About (Mirror: moved to https://gitlab.esss.lu.se/ecdc/ess-dmsc/essdaq) Standalone daq based on the ESS software stack
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 PRs, 213 pushes in 7 years 9 months
essdaqsoftware-stackstandalone
mortenjc/lang
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 11 months
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