Søren Gersager
Backend Developer at Nykredit
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSøren Gersager is a backend developer with 11 years of experience building reliable APIs and backend systems, currently at Nykredit supporting mortgage services used by hundreds of thousands of homeowners. He holds an MSc from DTU and combines solid academic grounding with hands-on experience in Python, Django/DRF, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, and CI/CD tooling. At Magenta he delivered civic software for 25 municipalities, including an appropriation-management tool that saved Ballerup Kommune 20M DKK annually, demonstrating an ability to translate domain needs into impactful, production-ready solutions. Earlier roles include modernizing Saxo’s publishing platform and migrating projects from Python 2 to 3 with full test coverage, reflecting a focus on maintainability and upgradeability. He brings cross-stack perspective from C#/.NET CMS work at JP/Politikens Hus to modern backend practices, and prefers pragmatic, test-first approaches that keep large-scale systems resilient. Quietly ambitious, he often pairs engineering rigor with a knack for delivering measurable public-sector savings.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology at Engineering College of AarhusInformation Technology, Information Technology at HTX HillerødTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish, python
Github Skills (120)
python10
swagger10
pyyaml10
rest-api10
openapi10
async10
django10
django-settings10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
django-admin10
text-editor10
orm10
django-ninja10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
magenta-aps/service_person_stamdata_udvidet
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Module that integrates with the service_person_stamdata_udvidet service from Serviceplatformen
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 9 months
serviceplatformenmagenta-componentperson
OS2bos/os2bos
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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