Niels Hanberg is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer based in Copenhagen with 14 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience across startups and telecoms. He has progressed from developer roles to head of backend and senior architect positions before taking the CTO role at Copyright Agent, consistently focusing on building reliable backend systems and guiding engineering teams. Known for being outgoing and people-oriented, he pairs strong management skills with a taste for practical innovation and solving complex technical problems. Niels contributes to open-source tooling around testing for .NET—having integrated the Gallio test runner into Machine.Specifications—highlighting a detail-oriented, DevOps-minded approach to quality and automation. Educated in ICT engineering, he brings both operational discipline and a "batteries included" mindset to deliver production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HTX, HTX at Lyngby Teknisk Gymnasium
BEng Information and Communication Technology, BEng Information and Communication Technology at Engineering College of Copenhagen
Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:24 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily contributed to integrating the Gallio test framework within the Machine.Specifications project. Their work involved adding the Gallio plugin, updating the rakefile to use the Gallio.Echo.exe, adding NuGet packages, and updating project references. They also modified project files to remove version numbers and updated assembly information. These changes facilitated running Machine.Specifications tests using the Gallio test runner.
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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Niels Hanberg - Chief Technology Officer at Copyright Agent