Thor Lauridsen
Senior Backend Engineer at Public
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolThor Lauridsen is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Copenhagen with eight years of professional experience building scalable backend systems in Kotlin and Java. He has end-to-end responsibility for stateless REST APIs, microservices, databases and third-party integrations, and regularly ships to Kubernetes clusters via CI/CD while monitoring horizontally scaled production workloads. At Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen he helped build an authorization system using structured concurrency that is projected to save DKK 100 million annually for private accounting firms and contributed to Keycloak-based MitID and system-to-system authentication. His background includes mobile and hybrid app development, giving him a practical appreciation for cross-team API contracts with native iOS/Android teams. Disciplined, proactive and highly productive, he pairs deep backend craftsmanship with a proven track record of delivering impactful public-sector services. He started building complex backends for large multiplayer experiences early in his career, which seeded his long-term focus on reliable, high-throughput systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Development, Bachelor's degree Software Development at IT-Universitetet i København
Github Skills (49)
minecraft9
bukkit9
h2-database9
exposed8
paper8
java8
gradle7
spring-boot7
structured-concurrency6
spring6
webflux5
rest-api5
aws5
rest5
rpg5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thorlauridsen/ktor-kotlin-sample
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
Ktor Kotlin multi-project Gradle build sample project using Exposed
Contributions:33 PRs, 64 pushes, 73 branches in 1 year 3 months
docker-composegradleh2h2-databasejunit
thorlauridsen/spring-webflux-kotlin-reactive-r2dbc
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Spring WebFlux + Spring Data R2DBC + Kotlin Coroutines sample project for reactive database interaction
Contributions:57 PRs, 86 pushes, 75 branches in 1 year 3 months
databasekotlin-coroutinesspringspring-data-r2dbcspring-webflux
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