Stephan Henningsen
Software Developer at The Lightwhale Project
Denmark
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Top SchoolStephan Henningsen is a pragmatic software developer and Linux expert with 11 years of professional experience building backend services, Android apps, and embedded systems across consultancy and product roles. He founded and leads the Lightwhale project — a minimalist Linux OS purpose-built to run Docker containers on bare metal — demonstrating a taste for elegant, single-purpose infrastructure. At Trifork and prior consultancies he’s designed Java microservices, REST APIs, and messaging-based architectures, and has deep hands-on experience with Docker, Quarkus, Undertow, and RabbitMQ. His background spans low-level embedded Linux and package management to high-level application logic, including unconventional prototypes like a cryptocurrency-powered Python shop and gameplay systems for toy figures. Based in Denmark, Stephan combines an engineer’s attention to sensible APIs and intuitive design with a playful, product-minded streak as a maker, photographer and aspiring indie game developer.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HTX (3-årig), Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, English, HTX (3-årig), Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, English at Struer ErhvervsskoleParkskolen i StruerSvagstrømsingeniør, Fysik, matematik, elektronik, programmering, Svagstrømsingeniør, Fysik, matematik, elektronik, programmering at Ingeniørhøjskolen i Århus
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Github Skills (107)
bitbake10
buildroot10
ecosystem10
docker-compose10
keychain10
golang10
container10
embedded-linux10
go10
documentation10
bsp10
docker10
moby10
openssh10
chroot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stephan-henningsen/boot2docker-raid
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 pushes in 4 days
docker-imagelinuxdockerdebianubuntu
stephan-henningsen/buildroot
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
kernelgit-repositoryopenflowlinuxbuildroot
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