Hi, I'm Ender

My Journey

I hold a PhD degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) including a research stay at University of Oxford. My PhD thesis was nominated to the Best PhD Thesis Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics by professors from prestigious universities. All my academic studies have been supervised by world class full professors, such as Hanne Riis Nielson, Flemming Nielson, Marta Kwiatkowska, and Mehmet Bülent Örencik.

In the first decade of my career, I worked as a researcher in computer science and software engineering. In parallel with conducting research and lecturing on security, verification, performance, I also kept a sharp focus on growing analytical, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. I made presentations and published articles in international conferences, I was interviewed by journalists, I gave invited talks to industry professionals in Europe, and I took active positions in national and international research consortiums and projects. I served as a vice-president of the DTU PhD Association, and as a Delegate of Denmark in the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers.

In the second decade of my career, I worked for the software industry in Denmark. I utilized my software engineering and leadership skills blended with my structural and analytical approach, in order to solve most challenging software development problems. Inherently, my impact has increased and I moved from being an individual contributor to leading development teams to meet their goals while continuously improving and coordinating with other teams. I have been very much people-oriented, tool/language-agnostic, with a lean-agile mindset all along, advocating continuous learning and leading by example.

Currently, in the third decade of my career, I am continuing my leadership journey with broader responsibilities. My professional interests lie in leading and unlocking the potential of large organizations. I am trusted with leading the most critical product development areas, and enjoying the opportunity to work with global talents and a variety of world class clients.

Selected Highlights

• 2024-2025 Massive productivity and efficiency gains in deliveries with my cycle time initiative
• 2024-2025 Built new area from scratch: Standard Platform for Investments
• 2022-2023 Built new area from scratch: Valuation Best Practices
• 2021 Actively contributed to Beyond SAFe transformation
• 2020-2021 Solely managed the development teams that built the first cloud native product of SimCorp, while massively scaling up the area
• 2019-2022 Trusted as the manager of the area that delivered Cloud Enablement and Transformation, working directly with the CTO and architects
• 2016-2019 Priviliged to be an active contributor of the Agile Transformation, including being one of the first Scrum Masters in the company
• 2015 Performance improvements in Pricing and Key Ratios server, implementation of telemetry
• 2014 Reverse engineering and rewriting loan systems, as well as architectural designs to be implemented by offshore teams

My Leadership Style

My work life almost exclusively took place in the Scandinavian work culture, that is known for flat hierarchy, work-life balance, and autonomy. Enriched with the diversity in the work force especially in the software development and technology, the work culture helped me shape a more egalitarian, consensual, confrontational, and direct style using Erin Meyer's terminology from The Culture Map.

Kim Scott's Radical Candor approach has been my North Star, in my leadership journey. The main idea being the leaders need to show that they care personally for employees while also challenging them directly with clear, kind feedback that is not aggressive or insincere.

In addition, I believe in growth mindset - thatis abilities can be developed (as defined in Carol Dweck's Mindset) - and perseverance (as explained in Angela Duckworth's Grit)