Independent Consultant, London, UK
2023 –
Palantir Technologies, London, UK
2022 – 2023 Lead Architect
- Technical leadership and hands-on technical architecture, design, and strategy throughout the life-cycle of strategic accounts and commercial partnerships
- Thought-partner to teams and individuals across the business, contextualising strategic decisions and propagating culture
- Technical lead for Microsoft partnership. Identifying, qualifying and developing synergies between the Palantir Foundry platform and Microsoft Azure offerings, and developing a reference architecture for Foundry on Azure
- Qualifying market signal into commercial opportunities and building a team to develop a go-to-market strategy and taking it to partners
2012 – 2021 Business Development, Forward Deployed Engineer
2021: Deployment Strategist, SwissRe
- Developing a series of experiments in new products for SwissRe based on their Palantir Foundry deployment, seeking to expand the scope of service offered in a particular business unit, enabled by new ways of integrating and leveraging a range of datasets across organisational boundaries
2019 – 2020: Skywise Onboarding Technical Lead for EMEA, Airbus
- Executing Airbus’ extremely ambitious target of onboarding 100 airlines onto its Palantir Foundry-based Skywise data platform before the end of 2019
- Leading technical delivery in the region, scaling our processes to increase the pace, triaging and resolving critical issues blocking delivery, and training, mentoring and supporting staff and contractors
- Building up processes to improve and sustain data quality and consistency at scale
2018 – 2019: Project Lead, EASA
- Leading the setup of a flight data analysis safety project for an international aviation safety body
- Winning the trust of a diverse group of stakeholders which was crucial in enabling and establishing key elements of the project
- Negotiating for, receiving and integrating flight data at scale
- Designing and implementing training courses for data scientists and other stakeholders
2018: Technical Lead, Humanitarian NGO
- Leading the technical work of enabling a humanitarian NGO’s critical war-zone operations, reporting and fundraising
2016 – 2018: Technical Lead, National Security
- Leading the build-out of a knowledge and analysis platform for a national security service in Europe, initially focusing on non-state actor threats
- Successfully negotiating key requirements with antagonistic counterparts
- Developing ETL pipelines to a variety of customer systems, building several new features for the Palantir platform and driving the relationship with the customer’s IT organization
2015 – 2016: Software Engineering and Operations, BP
- Integrating and stabilizing a pipeline streaming sensor data at very high scale into the Palantir platform in real time
- Leading the effort to develop a tool to assist customer engineers to plan the completion of very deep, horizontal sanding-prone wells, a complex and risky operation worth hundreds of millions of dollars
2014 – 2015: Technical Lead, Foreign Intelligence
- Executing a highly successful pilot of Palantir at a European foreign intelligence agency, and immediately converting the project to enterprise-wide rollout, supporting every analyst in the organization performing critically important work, and enabling several outcomes on the ground that would previously have been impossible
- Developing ETL pipelines to integrate with customer systems, several new features for the Palantir platform as well as a custom application to support a central business workflow
2013 – 2014: Software Engineer, Border Security
- Part of a two-person team pulled in on short notice to build a border security solution for the border security enforcement agency at a major European international airport and deploy this after only three months to enable the agency to smoothly transition off a legacy system facing shutdown on a hard deadline
2012: Software Engineer, National Security
- Supporting a customer in the national security sector, working on various infrastructure tasks, including transitioning the backup processes to a more flexible solution based on Oracle technology, and upgrading the installation
TIM Group, London, UK
2010 – 2012: Senior Software Engineer, Product Manager
- FinTech with products in alpha capture and hedge fund liquidity simulation
- Crafting consistently high-quality financial software for the web in an agile team
Various jobs, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 – 2010: Software Engineer
- Web development
- Systems and network administration
Education: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
2003 – 2008: BSc Technical Science