Thomas Mølhave
Chief Technology Officer at SCALGO
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Mølhave is a Chief Technology Officer with 20 years of experience bridging academic research and product engineering, leading SCALGO since 2009 to turn advanced algorithms and LiDAR/GIS expertise into scalable geospatial solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aarhus University and has held research and teaching positions at Duke University, where his work focused on external-memory algorithms and massive-data performance. Technically fluent in C/C++, algorithms, data structures and performance engineering, he combines deep low-level optimization skills with product leadership and project management. An active open-source contributor, he has improved mapping UX in the widely used OpenLayers project by optimizing tile rendering and strengthening its test suite. Colleagues describe him as a founder-minded CTO who still dives into code to solve bottlenecks that matter for large-scale spatial datasets. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, he brings uncommon depth in external-memory and big-data algorithmics to practical geospatial products.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Aarhus University
Github Skills (6)
testing10
maps10
javascript10
openlayers10
canvas9
webgl9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openlayers/openlayers
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
OpenLayers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 58 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the OpenLayers repository, demonstrating a focus on improving tile rendering and overall map functionality. Key contributions include refining the tile loading process to render older tiles while waiting for newer ones, thus optimizing the user experience. Further, the user addressed WMTS theme location and improved the codebase with refactoring efforts like renaming debug variables and moving test cases. Additionally, the user has shown strong expertise in enhancing the test suite.
openlayersjavascript
thomasmoelhave/ol3
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:51 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 8 months
gisopenlayers
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