Nicolaj Græsholt
CTO & Founder at Merrymake
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolNicolaj Græsholt is a pragmatic CTO and founder with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. He blends hands-on engineering—Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins—and entrepreneurial grit from founding Merrymake and earlier web and e-commerce ventures. A former Continuous Delivery consultant and trainer, he excels at translating complex infrastructure needs into practical, teachable solutions and has a knack for demystifying #buzzwords for teams. Nicolaj holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Aarhus University and pairs academic depth with a do-leader mindset: he builds, showcases, and teaches when something works—or explains why it shouldn’t be done. Outside work he’s creatively restless—into gaming, singing, dancing, cooking and hardware—bringing playful curiosity to technical problem solving. Based in Aarhus, he equally enjoys building the cloud of tomorrow and showing others how to ship it.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasiel Uddannelse, Mathematics and IT, Gymnasiel Uddannelse, Mathematics and IT at HTX i Aarhus MidtbyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Aarhus University10. klasse, Math, German, chemistry, music and english., 10. klasse, Math, German, chemistry, music and english. at Skovlund Efterskole
Danish, English
Github Skills (200)
jenkins-api-plugin10
libgit210
security10
menu10
refactoring10
k8s10
monitoring10
charts10
helm10
xinput10
kubernetes10
kernel10
docker10
networking10
jenkins10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
figaw/gke-prometheus-mvp
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
figaw/configuration-as-code-jenkins-k8s
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Demo resources for the Configuration as Code of Jenkins (for Kubernetes) talk on the 21st of April, for the Jenkins Online Meetup group
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years
jenkinsaprilmeetup-groupkubernetesas-code
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