Core product ownership
Ampler Charts through growth and maturity
Long-running ownership across product, runtime behavior, and engineering flow.
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CarstenNilsson
Commercial impact
Scaled past DKK 10M ARR
Worked on the product as it became a core commercial driver for the business.
Technical depth
VSTO, Office interop, async, caching, profiling
Strongest when the work needs performance wins, careful debugging, and durable design.
Leverage
Product work plus tooling and CI improvements
Not just features. Also throughput, reliability, and day-to-day developer flow.
Positioning
Hands-on product engineering with a performance bias.
I have spent most of my career inside real commercial software, where the work is not only shipping features but making the product faster, calmer, and easier for a team to deliver with confidence.
What I actually do
Most of my work sits where product engineering meets high-leverage technical cleanup: faster runtime behavior, more predictable systems, and tooling that makes shipping easier.
Why this site exists
This is a small, durable public surface for the things that matter: who I am, what I have built, and the kinds of engineering problems I am good at solving.
What matters most
I care about long-term product ownership, practical architecture, and the small technical decisions that compound into a better product and a calmer engineering team.
Selected workSee all
Ampler Charts
Commercial Office add-in product work with long-term ownership and performance focus.
Worked across feature delivery, plugin behavior, profiling, caching, async processing, and practical C#/.NET design to keep the product fast and dependable over time.
Office add-in platform and delivery tooling
Internal engineering work that improved throughput around commercial add-in development.
Contributed recurring improvements around CI parallelization, developer workflow, and supporting tooling so the team could move faster without making the product harder to operate.
NotesOpen notes
Performance work is product work
Why runtime improvements, profiling, and algorithm cleanup are not side quests when the product lives inside Office.
Delivery leverage beats busywork
Notes on the kind of tooling, CI, and workflow improvements that quietly compound into a much stronger team.
Hands-on architecture
A working definition of architecture that still stays close to code, operational detail, and product reality.
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