Ronni Elken Lindsgaard, MSc. Computer Science

Profile

I am a craftsman who loves building things, virtual as well as physically.

Since my years in middle school my hobby has revolved around internet technologies. A hobby that have since grown into a profession, pure serendipity.

I enjoy the process and labor that goes into designing and building software systems — therefore the business processes and quality of the resulting product is of high importance to me.

I have over 15 years of professional experience developing and maintaining software systems working across full stack deployed to different environments. On top of that, I spent half a decade more teaching myself the art of computer programming in private.

My MSc in Computer Science has given me a broad mathematical and theoretical background that enables me to quickly grasp and understand new concepts and technologies.

My development experience has given me a strong foundation and hard-earned lessons in

• Agile practices
• Producing quality software
• Understanding and outweighing business and customer needs against “correctness”
• Running and maintaining production code.
• As well as many other.

I work towards mastery and in my work employ

• Pragmatism and agility
• Test Driven Development and Continuous integration
• Frequent refactoring based on deeper knowledge of the problem domain
• Well established design principles (and when not to use them)
• Frequent feedback and alignment from technical peers and stakeholders
• Experience based foresight

In order to thrive I need

• A clear separation of concerns and well defined priorities, goals, and responsibilities
• A culture of learning and continuous improvment within the confines of the team as well as on an inter-team and organisational level.
• A culture of responsibility — A strong team that can work autonomously and feel strongly towards the quality of the product.
• A culture of respect and inclusion, in meetings as well as in the canteen

Reversely, a feeling of stagnation or status quo bias from peers or the organisation is detrimental to my motivation.

To the table I bring

• An honest, intelligent, mature, well humoured, and respectful colleague with a professional mindset.
• Enthusiasm for the quality of the product regarding DevEx and UX.
• A positive, honest and constructive mindset who knows that empathy is important when giving feedback.
• An eagerness to share knowledge and experience via mentoring, pair programming and/or presentations.

Education

I hold a MSc in Computer Science, specializing in software design and software architecture. Throughout my studies, I worked part time giving me the hands-on experience that academia do not teach you.

Taking an education was a deliberate choice for me, as I had earlier partnered in a startup https://mediastyle.dk working with web-development technologies. Where I was self-taught by, tinkering with various technologies such as IIS/ASP/MSDB, the LAMP stack, HTML/CSS/JS, Java (applets) and Actionscript.

Throughout those years I became more interested in the code than the visual result, urging me on to a college degree.

• My Thesis concerned traceability in the continuous delivery pipeline.

Previous experience

As a consultant throughout my masters, I was allowed to

• Make acquaintance with departments of various sizes.

• Gain hands on experience with different ways of work, especially SCRUM.

• Work with mobile development and multi-device applications.

My bachelor project, and part-time work during my first years of college included writing one of the first iterations of the software back-end serving https://iex.dk/.

Working as a partner in http://mediastyle.dk I was responsible for:

• Designing our own CMS system on a LAMP stack, later making the strategic choice shifting to Open Source systems including Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and Wordpress.

• 1st line customer support

• System Operations and maintenance

• Bulk integration across different CRM/Webshop/Inventory management systems – later to be component- and product-ized as IEX. A system that is a succesful product product and standalone company today.

• Customer and sales relations

Skills

Technologies

• Object oriented programming: Python, Javascript, Java, Objective-C

• Functional programming: Python, Javascript, Erlang

• Low level programming Languages: C

• Procedural programming: Python, Shell, Javascript

• Domain Specific Languages: DOT, Jinja, HTML/CSS

• Version Control: Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, SVN

• CI: Jenkins, Buildbot, Travis

• Web server: Nginx, Apache2

• Databases: Postgres, MySQL

• Kanban, SCRUM

• Orchestration: Puppet, Ansible, Terraform

• Domain Driven Development

• Test Driven Development