Anselm Christophersen

Chief Software Engineer @ Danske Bank
with ❤️ for JavaScript

Lead on the JavaScript part of the Future Financing Customer Solution (grooming features, being the go-to person for all stakeholders, including developers on my team).
Participating in Financing IT's "Front-End guild", defining Front-End best practices in Financing IT and Danske Bank.
Leading the "Future Financing Design System" in close collaboration with UX, and participating in discussions on drafting the Danske Bank Design System.

Of other achievements, I've initiated bringing Sentry (for error tracking) and Cypress (for automated testing) to Danske Bank, and with a little luck I'll also bring Chromatic for visual regression testing.

Lead developer on the JavaScript part of a new project in Danske Bank/Future Financing.
Other accomplishments include setting up component library/design system as own npm module and contributing to Danske Bank's best practices on JavaScript related matters.

Detailed specs with wireframes of all pages for tendering for a new website (to be published later in 2019).

Developer on a React/Redux app in Danske Bank/Future Financing.

Building site and shop based on third party shopping system and headless Wordpress (javascript part)

Refactoring framework for Sharepoint based intranet sites at Novo Nordisk + various work.
Mainly JavaScript work, leveraging ES6, Gulp, Webpack & Babel.

Html implementation, including CSS/SVG animations.

Technical lead on building a web app that replaces CPAC's legacy article crawler system. The app aggregates law texts, crawled from all Canadian municipalities by robots set up on Dexi. The app was built using PHP/SilverStripe 4 as backend, and Javascript/ES6/Bootstrap as frontend.

Website to teach children and teenagers in Denmark about being conscious when being online.

Design and ux in collaboration with Mikkel Johnsen. Graphical identity by Tobias Røder.

Html implementation, including CSS animations.

Website with 4 small educational mobile web apps to teach students in Denmark about the Danish minority South of the German border.

Apps:

• Stories: http://danskmindretal.dk/livsfortaellinger/
• Friendship book: http://danskmindretal.dk/vennebogen/
• Dilemma game: http://danskmindretal.dk/dilemmaspillet/
• Story cube: http://danskmindretal.dk/story-cube/

In 2015/2016 I was part of the team at ACG that developed a retail app with 3 different entry points that are using the same code base for Web, iOS and Android. We used SilverStripe as the backend, and communicated with the React/Redux based frontend through an API.

Updated the design I created a few years earlier to be mobile friendly by introducing Zurb Foundation. Also upgraded to SilverStripe 3.

Lead on SilverStripe backend for a soon to be released distribution system. Can't disclose more at this point.
UPDATE: Unfortunately this project was never released due to internal policies.

Project lead on Klubliv Mobil, which is a recently started mobile phone company. The SilverStripe based site integrates with an API and includes signup and dashboard for clients. Our work flow includes all the bells & whistles you could wish for: We communicate over Slack, use Jenkins as CI that runs unit tests on each commit, have full Behat coverage on the signup flow, and use Terminal Tools for deployment and syncing environments.

I helped leading development, refactoring, building signup forms, and finding additional help to make sure the SilverStripe based website for Klubliv Danmark could launch for it's deadline in April 2015.

In the spring 2015 I'm helping out with mostly frontend and some backend development on a Laravel/MongoDB based web app that's dealing with some seriously big data.

New site, mobile first, and on Wordpress. My work included frontend structure & development, project management, content migration, infrastructure setup.

Allows the client to set up unlimited sub sites with custom themes and color schemes.

In the fall 2014 I returned working with Adair Creative Group where I helped out developing features for 2 existing SilverStripe based ecommerce sites.

Backend system (real estate administration, based on German OpenImmo standard) for SilverStripe based real estate site, Element5 Mallorca.

iPad game & site for the Danish ADHD society. Backend powered by SilverStripe.

Various support on the SilverStripe based web shop

SilverStripe structure, development & support on a multi language site with staff, manager and gallery sections, empowering eployees to actively participate in the celebrations.

A climate toolbox for based on research done at the Citizen Driven Environmental Action Program (CIDEA) at the Copenhagen University.

a simple SilverStripe 3.1 based web app that allows employees at Fritz Hansen to upload photos, and see them in a nice, slide-enabled gallery.

SilverStripe 2.4/Twitter Bootstrap based school intranet solution. The app features homework, groups, address management and an advanced calendar.

SilverStripe backend structure & development, featuring calendar, misc directories, and blog.

SilverStripe based site for Salveo.

SilverStripe 3.0 based site for Yoo.com. The site features multiple languages (including Chinese), and several whitelabel sub sites - all managed from the same system.

SilverStripe 2.4/Twitter Bootstrap print workflow web app custom built for print shop in Barcelona.

Development of countdown script, graphic, and overall co-ordination of priming the Into Eternity site (which I’ve developed as well) for millions of visitors for a Greenpeace event where the movie was available to stream for free.

Backend and frontend work of mobile site for Fritz Hansen’s Minuscule chair.

I was part of the MV Retail team for almost a year, working on the SilverStripe-based webapp.

The website for the illustrator "Anton Engel" has been designed and developed in close co-operation with the artist himself. Anton Engel creates, illustrates and draws in Hamburg, Germany.

Design & development of 2 different sites, running on the same code base.

Frontend work involved in enabling a mobile friendly shopping experience on Airshoppen - Thomas Cook Scandinavia’s online tax free shop.

SilverStripe based presentation site.

Design & development of website for the organization “Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities”.

Yoga portal, integrated with Facebook. Included community calendar, auto crawling blog rolls, and much more.

A simple project management system, built in SilverStripe. This is a fully functioning project management system for a 1-man company. It's built in a couple of days in 2010, out of the need for a PM system. This project is open source, and available on Github.

All frontend and backend work involved in the 7th episode of “Paradise Hotel”, a reality show, aired on Danish TV3.

Implementation of design and setup of CMS for the movie Into Eternity.

The SilverStripe 2.3 based webapp Dmap facilitates movie distribution for a small Danish documentary production company, featuring a clickable world map, that is colored to give an easy overview on where distribution agreements have been set up. All frontend and backend work.

The site for Rosenborg Castle, and Amalienborg Castle in Copenhagen, housing the crown jewels. SilverStripe 2.3 powered multi language, multi-site site with separate mobile site, as well as ecommerce for the museum shop.

When approached to join the startup 1Calendar in 2008, I recommended the use of SilverStripe as backend and framework. The first version of 1Calendar was powered by SilverStripe, and served students at several universities in Copenhagen and Århus, Denmark.

Developing and co-designing various working prototypes for the CITH research project.

Portfolio website for the Danish designer "Kit Halding"

Implementation of design and setup of CMS for the movie Burma VJ.

Building various PHP based tools.

Working on ihi.com and building various internal tools

Development of own content management system, which was used for appr. 10 client sites, including two ecommerce systems. Around 2006 it was clear to me that keeping on updating and working on an own CMS would be a lot of work. In 2007, after trying out several solutions, I found SilverStripe, and which is the CMS I now preferably use.

Multi-language article archive and database, Slesvigland. Slesvigland was a Danish/German magazine that was available in the Danish/German border region since the 1970’s. Work included scanning of appr. 130 magazines, and digitize them, an interactive map, and a timeline.

Intern as designer, but started working on web tools during the internship.