Niels Ladekarl
Head Of Engineering at Flatpay
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolNiels Ladekarl is a Head of Engineering based in Copenhagen with a decade of experience building high-performing teams and scalable platforms across startups and enterprise projects. He has a track record of growing frontend teams from 0 to 8 engineers, leading platform launches that won national awards for UX and innovation, and steering complex migrations and performance fixes in public-sector systems. Comfortable toggling between hands-on technical work and strategic leadership, he has led transitions from outsourced to in-house delivery and overseen infrastructure shifts such as NemID to MitID and IaC. As a former technical co-founder and brief CEO, he blends product-minded engineering with employee-first team stewardship, even managing a strategic company wind-down while keeping morale high. His background in mission-critical military C4I systems and academic training from DTU, Aarhus and UBC bring a disciplined, reliability-first approach that informs both architecture and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology Engineering at Aarhus UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaTechnical University of Denmark
Danish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (57)
logic10
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
dynamics10
nodejs10
dynamics-crm10
csharp10
angular10
crm9
grid9
ui-grid9
web-performance9
grid-layout9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Ladekarl/react-native-color-theme
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Ladekarl/itweb_gruppe3
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 45 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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