Frederik Aarup Lauritsen Senior architect

My current role is as a development lead on a project for P&O Ferries. In this role I am reviewing pullrequests, assisting developers, clarifying questions with the customer and coding parts of the solution. I am also involved in discussions about the architecture with the principal architect on the project, and talk to our operations team about environments, secrets and monitoring. I started on this project in march 2024.

Before the P&O project, I had been working on the Airhart project for Copenhagen Airports since I started in Netcompany. During my time as a Senior Architect on the Airhart project I had three primary areas of focus: integration, business rules and monitoring. The work involved close collaboration with customer experts to clarify and fix details in the business rules.

As Airhart went into production, I got involved in debugging and solving production incidents. During this process, I became more aware of monitoring through metrics and the quality of logs. We use Prometheus metrics in our applications, which are scraped and are used to trigger alarms. I have been the primary stakeholder of alarms and metrics on the functional team, coordinating with the operations team about improvements to the alarms.

I had been one of the main developers of integrations so when an expansion project was being planned, I was involved in analysing and estimating a large update to the technical landscape around Copenhagen Airport.

During my time at the Airhart project, it has grown to over 100 people and shrunken back down to 6 developers. During our cut over, I was one of the 4 people whom had the responsibility to handle all the incidents, while the employees in the Airport got used to the new product running without any support from the legacy system.

I started at Netcompany on 1. August 2020, after I had completed my thesis in June. I was immediately put on the Airhart project, which is a project Netcompany has delivered for Copenhagen Airports. The project replaced a big part of the airports existing IT infrastructure, meaning a big part of the work involved talking to the IT experts at the Airport to get domain knowledge, and getting information about the specific components which we were replacing.

I was a Team Lead for a few months in the spring of 2021, for a team of 8 developers. I stopped as a Team Lead because I prefer a more technical role. I got a lot of praise from my immediate manager for my performance as a Team Lead. Next, I became a "Technical Quality Pilot" for the inbound integrations. At the time, 6 people were developing integrations, meaning that I had the responsibility for PR reviews and to keep a general overview of the state of development in the area. Being a "Technical Quality Pilot" additionally included improving the design and writing general patterns for the common parts of the integrations. At this point, I started being more involved in the outbound integrations, and I was a "Technical Quality Pilot" for those for some time as well.

In between high school and University, I worked as a customer service employee at Skolemælk. The work involved answering emails, helping people place orders and correct existing orders. Due to a new software system, Skolemælk received several thousand emails from customers needing help with the new system. I worked full time for most of the time from summer 2014 to summer 2015, with the exception of 3 months in South East Asia with a friend.