Niels Søholm
Director Of Engineering at ZeroNorth
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolNiels Søholm is a hands-on engineering leader with 12+ years building full-stack web products and 15+ years of software experience overall, currently directing engineering across four product teams at ZeroNorth. He specializes in closing the gap between design, product and engineering—driving delivery, team health, and engineering enablement while remaining deeply practical and code-focused. Niels joined Qvest as employee number one, wrote the first lines of code and scaled the product to serve major Danish enterprises, blending product-minded development with security and compliance. At ZeroNorth he led ML and AI-enabled initiatives that let designers contribute directly to production code and built internal infrastructure for AI agents, reflecting a strong interest in tooling that accelerates cross-disciplinary workflows. Comfortable from infrastructure to UX, he combines start-up grit with enterprise rigor and a proven track record of turning user problems into shipping software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Graduate, Computer Software Engineering, Exchange Student, Graduate, Computer Software Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnHTX, Technology / Design, HTX, Technology / Design at Selandia - Center for Erhvervsrettet Uddannelse
Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
graph9
javascript8
interface-design8
canvas8
charts7
figma7
netflix7
loader7
spectrum7
java7
spring-boot7
spring7
design-tool7
apache-flex6
apollo-client6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nielssj/backend-alternatives
Jan 2015 - May 2019
Implementations of an example RESTful backend using various languages, frameworks and database technologies.
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 5 months
apiimplementationsbackend-restfultechnologiesrestful
nielssj/ITU-SMDP-Group11
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 month
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