Thomas Horsten
Freelancer And Consultant at Self-employed
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Horsten is a veteran software engineer, consultant and entrepreneur with 26 years of experience building low-level systems, embedded platforms and device recognition technologies for startups and Fortune 500 firms. He combines hands-on expertise in kernel hacking, virtualization, device drivers and assembler-level optimization with product and project leadership—founding companies, leading R&D teams and shipping carrier-grade and mobile solutions. Notable work spans Symbian hypervisors, XenClient virtualization, MIPS toolchain and AdTruth device recognition at Experian, reflecting a rare blend of embedded systems depth and applied data-driven engineering. Based in Copenhagen, he now consults and freelances, bringing pragmatic problem-solving and a hacker’s mindset to complex security, networking and IoT challenges. An understated thread through his career is repeatedly turning platform-level research into deployable products across constrained devices and large-scale services.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Krebs SkoleFrederiksberg GymnasiumTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French
Stackoverflow
1,125reputation
247kreached
23answers
3questions
Github Skills (78)
editor9
steam9
spider9
php-class9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
electron9
sound-files9
typescript9
stdin9
linux8
command-line-tool8
crawler8
tensorflow-lite8
bots8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oyvholm/cwwav
Jun 2011 - Mar 2014
Command line tool to generate morse code sound files from text or stdin
Contributions:38 commits in 2 years 9 months
command-line-toolsound-filesstdin
horsten/dtu30010
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 16 pushes in 12 days
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