Gorm Casper

Software developer with UX education
and more than 15 years of experience.

hello@mail.gormcasper.dk


Experience

Tech Lead / Issuu
2020 - present

Tech lead on the most backend heavy team in the company. We take apart PDFs and analyse their content and prepare it for presentation online.

Our tech stack is Rust, Python, OCaml, TypeScript (for BFF and frontend), and a myriad of other languages (yay Microservices!), all communicating via Protobuf over AMQP and run on AWS infrastructure.

I was the main driver for adopting Rust at the company and I also build and maintain a good chunk of the internal developer tools.

Expert Software developer / Nordea
2017 - 2020

Worked on the frontend at Nordea where I built a set of ui components which was be used in most (all?) future web projects. I also regularly did workshops with other developers and did a bit of mentoring as well. Latest project was laying the foundation for migrating more than 250K lines of AngularJS code to Angular.

Software developer / Founders
2015 - 2017

Worked in a very small team in purely js (both front and back), creating prototypes, proof of concepts of what would eventually ammount to real projects.

Software developer / Zmags
2013 - 2015

Worked with frontend and design in a team of about 9 developers and 2 designers on a web app. I did work ranging from maturing stories (pre development), to mocking up ideas for rapid testing, to implementing solutions in JavaScript. The frontend consisted of a Backbonejs framework, with LESS css, gruntjs, git, and npm included in the setup.

UX Designer & developer / Place2Book
2009 - 2013

My role was everything design, UX, and frontend, plus the rare backend fix when necessary. The backend was built in Ruby on Rails, and when I joined I introduced Sass, jQuery, and later CoffeeScript and Bootstrap.

Co-founder / Planely
2010 - 2012

Finding backenders to accompany me in building a web app. The backend was first written in PHP (Zend framework), but later we changed to Haskell and Yesod framework. I did everything design (both online and offline), presentations, team building and recruiting, as well as the entire frontend.

Teaching 2006 - 2012

Various small teaching jobs, both in secondary school (usually 8-10th grade) teaching one of my subjects; and while studying at ITU I have been TA in a Web Design course a few semesters giving lectures on jQuery and Javascript for beginners.

Freelancer 2002 - 2013

For a period of ten years or so I was taking in a lot of various small frontend and design projects on a freelance basis. The jobs was varied, ranging from simple static html pages to full fledged UX research and frontend implementation on existing backends.

CSS Spec work / whatwg
2006

I took at year off studies to work with WHATWG on the spec for what became html5 and css3. The work I did consisted mostly of documenting css rendering errors in browsers. During this time I also worked on a friend’s startup that eventually failed.


Education

Digital Design & Communication, ITU (Cand.It.) 2010 - 2013

Master in Digital Design & Communication with UX as speciality.

Blaagaard Seminarium 2005 - 2010

Bachelor in teaching mathematics, English, Social science, and History.

Danish Technical University, DTU 2002 - 2004

Chemical Engineering.