Christian Bloch Thomsen
Summary
I'm a skilled developer specializing in web and frontend technologies, with a focus on data-driven frontend applications that support business-critical processes.
I have worked with React and the wider React ecosystem as the primary frontend technology. I quickly understand complex problems and business processes and am accustomed to working in project teams alongside developers, project managers, and graphic designers. I am a dedicated team member who goes the extra mile to meet project goals and support my colleagues.
In 2022, I made the decision to move into freelancing. Since then, I have worked for clients, such as Jyske Bank, Per Aarsleff and the United Nations.
Career and projects
Development of a project management tool to support entering, organizing and enriching project data for projects in Per Aarsleff Pipe Technologies. The application is built in React and integrated into Microsoft Dynamics.
Implement a redesign of the UNOPS data website that I previously developed in 2024.
Development of a website for UNOPS to showcase their projects around the world.
Development of a project management tool to support entering, organizing and enriching project data for projects in Per Aarsleff Pipe Technologies. The application is done in React and integrated into Microsoft Dynamics.
Development of the frontend, for an automated anti money laundering check of real estate buyers and sellers.
Upgraded npm versions of a large code base that had fallen significantly behind recommended versions.
Part of an internal frontend development team responsible for building a new website for Jyske Bank private banking customers. The application is a Next.js application integrated with the bank’s Umbraco Headless CMS. The task involved developing a suite of reusable React components to use on the website.
Part of a frontend team that built a large web application, aimed at disrupting the real estate case management software industry and digitalizing the way realtors work internally and with their customers. The project includes calendar and task management, a messenger-style chat system for communicating with clients, a document management system, loan calculation, an interface with banks, lenders, and public real estate data, and much more. The product has gone from a newcomer with 0% market share, to a dominant market leader in less than 3 years.
Responsible for developing a web application for searching for approved providers to help motorists, who need roadside assistance.
Part of a small startup company of 4 developers, aimed at creating an online platform for job applicants to apply to jobs, by answering three to five predefined employer questions, using the camera on their cell phone and an app created by Joblicate. Employers could then evaluate each applicant's video answer, from the platform and pick out suitable candidates. I have worked as a frontend developer, on the web platform registration module and question setup module in React. The company was sold to a big Danish job board, 6 months after he started at the company.
I worked as a senior consultant, at a development and consulting firm, with responsibility for his own customer portfolio. Here are some examples of projects he worked on during that time:
Production planning application for Per Aarsleff A/S:
Business-critical web application to assist Per Aarsleff Pipe Technologies with project management, production planning, calculation, estimation of costs, workflow, and documentation in their pipe renovation business unit. The application was used by all employees in Per Aarsleff Pipe Technologies offices, as well as by construction workers in the field.
Blog site for Grundfos CEO Mads Nipper
From 2010 to 2016 Christian would often work once a week onsite at Grundfos, to help out on different projects, and during that time he developed a blog site, that was integrated into the Grundfos intranet, where the Grundfos CEO could blog about different topics and employees could interact with comments and questions. The blog integrated with the Yammer account of the CEO.
ISO quality assurance application for public regions in Denmark
Part of a team of four developers who worked on a web application for the hospitals in two of the largest regions in Denmark, where their procedures, instructions and policies are maintained and deviations are registered. The solution includes controlling read and write access to documents, tracking who has read what material, and advanced search interfaces. All employees have access to these systems, which are better known as "VIP" and "e-dok" in the health sector.
While working at ipsh!, a marketing agency specializing in mobile marketing, like SMS promotions, mobile coupons, wallpapers, ringtones, interactive voice responses. He developed a platform where campaigns could be set up by project managers, without any coding, greatly reducing the time and cost to market. In 2007 the application was used to set up a Pizza Hut campaign that ran during the NFL Super Bowl.
Consultant at an IBM Business Partner, where his responsibilities included development and implementation of applications for the web and the Lotus Notes client. He was responsible for his own customer portfolio. From May 2004 I moved to San Francisco and took care of his customers from there until 2006.