Johnny J. Andersen

Executive Profile & Philosophy

Engineering leader with 25+ years in technology and 18+ years leading engineering organisations, teams, and data-intensive products. Combines technical depth with business leadership to shape platforms and build teams grounded in craftsmanship, ownership, reliable delivery, and stakeholder alignment.

Current focus is maritime data platforms, pipelines, cloud engineering, and dependable operations. Experience spans GCP, Terraform, DevOps, analytics, and earlier machine learning and data mining.

The Craftsmanship Imperative: I believe great software is built by engineers who take deep pride in their craft. I foster engineering cultures anchored in rigorous standards, clean architecture, system resilience, and true product ownership—so teams care about every detail they build and ship.

AI-Augmented Engineering Culture: At Portchain, I lead team-wide AI-agent use, with engineers accountable for review and production decisions. We apply agents across the lifecycle—from exploring unfamiliar systems and shaping ideas to writing, refactoring, testing, and documenting production code—pairing machine speed with human judgment, ownership, and craftsmanship.

Core Expertise

• Leadership: Engineering strategy, organisational design, manager development, team scaling, stakeholder alignment, delivery and execution.
• Platforms: Data platforms and pipelines, data ingestion and integration, APIs and EDI, analytics and data quality, scalable databases, cloud architecture, reliability and observability.
• Cloud and delivery: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, DevOps, microservices, event-driven systems.
• Product domains: Maritime operations, berth planning, port-call coordination, sports technology, marketplaces, financial portals.

Employment History

• May 2025 – Present: VP of Engineering, Portchain
  Lead engineering for maritime products that help carriers and terminals coordinate port calls and berth planning using timely, trustworthy operational data. Manage teams and technical direction across data platforms, continuous schedule and vessel-data ingestion, API and EDI integrations, and scalable production services. Use GCP and Terraform-managed infrastructure; apply modern DevOps practices to delivery, operations, observability, and reliability. Partner with Product and business stakeholders to turn customer needs into practical, dependable software.
  Tech: GCP, Terraform, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Microservices, Event Sourcing
• Aug 2019 – Apr 2025: Chief Technology Officer, Tonsser
  Led technology and multidisciplinary teams across backend, mobile, and data science as the youth-football platform grew to more than 2 million players across Europe and the United States.
  Tech: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kotlin, Swift, AWS
• May 2013 – Jul 2019: Chief Technology Officer and Product Owner, AutoButler
  Built and scaled an online auto-repair marketplace across five countries, reaching 200,000 monthly visitors and more than 5,000 active bidding workshops. Led product and engineering through growth and the company’s strategic acquisition by a global industry leader.
  Tech: Rails, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Cloud Infrastructure
• Dec 2012 – Apr 2013: Consultant, RICH & DOW
  Delivered IT consulting, project management, and Umbraco development for client projects.
• Jun 2010 – Aug 2012: Chief Technology Officer, Copenhagen Shipping Exchange (CPHSE)
  Built systems for intelligent email parsing, near-real-time shipping-position extraction, and large-scale shipping databases.
  Tech: Java, PHP, MySQL, CouchDB, MapReduce
• Dec 2000 – Apr 2010: Head of IT and Development; Chief Developer; Software Developer, EuroInvestor.com A/S
  Progressed from software developer to Chief Developer and Head of IT and Development, leading technology and delivery through rapid European expansion and the company’s IPO on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Built financial portals, currency converters, and advertising systems serving over 1 million monthly active users. Led technology strategy, IT operations, architecture, and teams of up to 20, including managers and international colleagues.

Education

• 1998 – 2000: Datamatiker, Næstved Handelsskole (Zealand Business College)
• 1995 – 1998: HHX, Næstved Handelsskole (Zealand Business College)

Languages

• Danish – Mother tongue
• English – Fluent

Projects & Investments

See current side projects and investments on Anderki.dk.