Accomplished software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance systems at scale. Passionate about software architecture, design principles, and engineering best practices, with a strong commitment to building cultures of engineering excellence. Known for remaining calm and composed in high-pressure situations while making clear, decisive decisions. Proven leadership in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers, as well as attracting and hiring top talent.

Mikkel Todberg

Accomplished software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance systems at scale. Passionate about software architecture, design principles, and engineering best practices, with a strong commitment to building cultures of engineering excellence. Known for remaining calm and composed in high-pressure situations while making clear, decisive decisions. Proven leadership in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers, as well as attracting and hiring top talent.

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Accomplished software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance systems at scale. Passionate about software architecture, design principles, and engineering best practices, with a strong commitment to building cultures of engineering excellence. Known for remaining calm and composed in high-pressure situations while making clear, decisive decisions. Proven leadership in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers, as well as attracting and hiring top talent.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

Danish
Fluent
English
Fluent

Work Experience

Lead Design System Engineer at Ørsted
January 1, 2022 - Present
Creator of the Oxygen Design System featuring reusable UI components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, playground, contribution model, and more. Architected and rolled out Ørsted’s first enterprise design system from scratch in a two-person team; system adopted by 60+ product teams company-wide. Responsible for roadmap, adoption strategy, training, ROI calculation, and ongoing evolution (formal contribution model and AI integrations in progress). Leads Frontend Community of Practice; delivering composite GitHub Actions and workflows, frontend guidelines, shared tooling, and reusable infrastructure across product teams.
Senior Frontend Developer at Dixa
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022
React developer of the main application and design system. Modernized the codebase, removed technical debt, and laid the groundwork by rewriting critical pieces of business logic and creating reusable building blocks. Authored company coding guidelines and best practices to raise code quality.
Frontend Developer at momondo
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2020
Angular developer in the Flights team; contributed to the price calendar, search form, flights results page, and map component. Part of a cross-country team tasked with consolidating momondo, KAYAK and affiliate brands into a unified codebase while preserving features.
Software Developer and Scrum Master at NNIT
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2015
Developed JobKon SPA; created a centralized state management system; contributed to architecture and processes as part of a Scrum team.
Graduate at NNIT
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2014
Graduate Programme with rotations; contributed to the Jobnet.dk project (TypeScript, AngularJS, Knockout, CSS/HTML) and worked as Test Manager in the Nemlog-in project (Compliance & Validation).
Student Programmer at Aalborg University
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
Developer of an Eclipse plugin that aids embedded software developers in Safety-Critical Java (SCJ) applications.
Student Programmer at KMD
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2013
Developer of a law enforcement system; removal of technical debt, development of utilities, and setup of build environments (MSBuild and Jenkins).
Software Tester at BAE Systems Detica GCS
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012
Maintenance and execution of dynamic black-box tests; generation of test data; ad hoc test activities as needed.
Manager at Burger King
January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2008
Full-time management role including leadership, employee training, planning, quality control, revenue deposits, food production, customer service, and handling complaints.

Education

MSc in Software Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2013
BSc in Software Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark
January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2011

Qualifications

Professional Scrum Developer (PSD1)
February 1, 2015 - January 14, 2026
Microsoft Certification: 70-480 - Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
September 1, 2014 - January 14, 2026

Industry Experience

Energy & Utilities, Software & Internet, Professional Services