Summary
Dan Brendstrup is a frontend specialist and lecturer based in Aarhus with 16 years of experience building fast, accessible, CMS-backed websites and modern JavaScript applications across agencies, startups and scale-ups. He has led frontend teams and shipped production React/React Native products for IoT and marketplace platforms, and now teaches practical web development from basic JavaScript to advanced frontend practices at Business Academy Aarhus. Dan is obsessed with performance, structured data and open web standards, and has a track record of pragmatic engineering—early adoption of responsive e‑commerce and migrating source control to Git long before it was mainstream. Comfortable mining product insights from databases and building internal dashboards, he blends hands-on coding with usability and testing discipline. Known for keeping the web open, accessible and fun, he brings a teacher’s clarity to complex tooling and modern frontend ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Broager Skole
Matematisk student, Matematisk student at Sønderborg Statsskole
MSc (cand.it), Digital Design, MSc (cand.it), Digital Design at Aarhus Universitet
Danmarks Journalisthøjskole
New Trier High School