Jørn Jannick Knudsen

Experienced internet and systems specialist with deep practical understanding of web platforms, operations, open source, legacy systems, integrations and technical responsibility.

My strength is quickly understanding digital systems across code, data, operations, integrations, user flows, and technical dependencies. I can enter an unfamiliar codebase, identify the main entry points, see what carries the solution, and assess what can be built upon, simplified, or replaced.

I have seen many systems from the inside and learned from the good, the bad, and the unnecessarily complicated. This has given me a broad practical sense of how digital solutions are actually created, how they age, and how they can be improved.

What drives me is exploring, sketching, coding, and testing quickly. Turning ideas into something concrete that can be tried, understood, and built upon.

Contact

Tel: +45 23119229
Email: jannick@iske.dk
Web: https://log.iske.dk/

Employment

03.2012 – 04.2026
Pro-IT ApS / Itagil ApS

Senior System Consultant

Troubleshooter and system stabiliser
Senior system consultant with broad experience across web platforms, legacy systems, technical operations, troubleshooting, customer dialogue, integrations and real-world system stabilisation.

  • Analysed, debugged and further developed existing systems for many different customers.
  • Took over complex, unresolved or stalled customer projects and helped move them safely forward.
  • Solved urgent operational problems across PHP, DNS, SSL/TLS, email, Linux, hosting and web platforms.
  • Created progress in high-pressure situations through practical problem solving and clear customer dialogue.
  • Built deep practical experience with DNS, email delivery, SSL/TLS, Linux operations, web hosting, WordPress, PHP and integrations.
  • Developed bridges between older and newer systems, often where documentation and ownership were incomplete.
  • Identified technical debt, defects, gaps and inefficient processes.
  • Supported interns and new employees in understanding operations, troubleshooting, legacy code and technical responsibility.
  • Continued as a senior specialist after the company's acquisition and organisational restructuring.
  • Left in connection with a strategic change and the phasing out of Linux- and open-source-related activities.

This work gave me a broad, practical understanding of how real systems fail, how technical debt grows, how customers are affected, and how complex solutions can be made stable again.

01.2009 – 03.2012
JJ af 1.januar 2009

Self-employed

Self-employed work with web development, open-source exploration, WordPress/PHP, Node.js, security tasks and a technical reset.

  • Developed and maintained websites, including WordPress and PHP solutions.
  • Worked as webmaster for the New Media Days event website.
  • Worked as a subcontractor on security analyses.
  • Explored, tested and compared a wide range of open source projects.
  • Worked early with Node.js and JavaScript-based server development.
  • Turned new technical knowledge into practical solutions and related it to earlier experience from web, publishing and digital platforms.

It strengthened my technical independence, my open-source mindset and my ability to quickly understand new technologies and judge their practical usefulness.

01.2004 – 10.2008
DSVP

Development Specialist

Technology, organisation and pressure
Development specialist while DSVP brought several weekly newspapers and related companies in Southern Jutland onto shared digital platforms.

  • Presented and further developed an early web portal in PHP.
  • Onboarded newspapers and related companies onto shared digital solutions.
  • Delivered ongoing new features, better performance and more stable operations.
  • Developed online ad booking and digitised parts of the advertising process.
  • Worked at the intersection of editorial, advertising, production, web and business.
  • Gained practical experience of how digitalisation changes workflows, roles, incentives and internal power structures.

This role taught me that technical solutions must not only work technically. They also have to fit the organisation, the business, the workflows and the human incentives around them.

01.2002 – 01.2004
Deote ( D O T )

Self-employed

Creative programming
Self-employed work with digital projects, experimental web production and technical/visual prototypes.

  • Developed digital solutions for specialised projects.
  • Worked with visual demos, experimental user interfaces and digital concepts.
  • Combined technical development with design, identity and communication.
  • Co-taught digital production and experimental web/media work.

Experimental work focused on digital identity, interactive solutions and the connection between technology, form and content.

01.1999 – 03.2002
e-types

Web Designer

Design detail and digital presentation
Web designer in a strong design- and identity-driven environment with focus on web, frontend, campaigns and digital presentation.

  • Contributed to strengthening the agency's web presence and using the website as a clear marker of creativity and quality.
  • Worked closely with graphic designers and digital specialists.
  • Developed websites, campaign sites and digital presentations.
  • Worked with the relationship between visual identity, content, user experience and technical execution.
  • Learned how much small frontend defects can affect the overall customer experience.

This work sharpened my understanding that digital solutions are not only about functionality. Identity, content, form, user experience and technical quality are tightly connected.

01.1996 – 01.1999
Egmont Online

Flash Wizard -> Project Manager -> Channel Manager

Worked with early web campaigns, Flash production, online games and digital product development in the early commercial era of the internet.

  • Developed campaign sites, Flash solutions and online games together with other web specialists.
  • Was promoted to project manager and team lead for the EON Games online games channel.
  • Later became Channel Manager.
  • Co-created the GameReactor concept and was a driving force in its early development.
  • Worked in a creative, fast-moving and experimental environment with new digital formats.

This is where I learned to build digital products, collaborate with creative specialists and turn new technologies into concrete user experiences.

01.1993 – 01.1996
Visual Communication, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

Workshop Assistant -> Workshop Manager (Mac)

Responsible for practical support, operations and further development of Mac-based desktop publishing workshops.

  • Provided practical one-to-one support in programs such as QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and font tools.
  • Helped students and teachers with concrete production problems.
  • Handled purchasing, setup and maintenance of desktop publishing workstations.
  • Built early experience with support, user frustration, software complexity and creative workflows.

This is where I learned early that technical support is not only about software. It is also about people, workflow, frustration, expectations and the ability to help someone move forward in a way they can build on themselves.

Education

08.1991 – 06.1992
Tønder Handels Skole

One-year Higher Commercial Examination course

Supplementary commercial education with focus on business, economics and practical commercial understanding.

Gave me an early business-oriented perspective on organisations, customers and economic context.

08.1989 – 06.1991
Tønder Gymnasium & HF

Mathematics-focused upper secondary education

Mathematics-focused upper secondary background.

Gave me an analytical foundation and early training in structured problem solving.

Skills

Technology

Technical profile with strong grounding in JavaScript, Linux, open source, web platforms, legacy systems, integrations, operations and contract-based system thinking.

  • JavaScript, Node.js, browser and server development.
  • Linux, shell, operations, hosting, troubleshooting, logs, processes and practical server responsibility.
  • PHP, WordPress, legacy web systems and long-lived web platforms.
  • DNS, email delivery, SSL/TLS, HTTP, domains, web servers and hosting environments.
  • SQL, MySQL/MariaDB, data analysis, migrations, troubleshooting and structured data modelling.
  • Docker/Compose, Nginx, Git, CI thinking and reproducible development/operations environments.
  • APIs, integrations, webhooks, JSON, JSON Schema and contract-based interfaces.
  • Auth, sessions, roles, permissions, audit logs, governance, compliance and traceability.
  • Open source evaluation, technical debt, system quality, maintainability and practical architecture.
  • Communication across technology, business, customers, support and management.

My strength is understanding systems as wholes: code, operations, data, people, processes and responsibility. I am at my best when something is complex, unclear, old, important or difficult for others to own.

AI-assisted system development

Advanced practical use of LLMs and AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, OpenAI models and Cursor/Composer for code understanding, architecture, debugging, documentation, refactoring and technical review.

Experience working with AI directly inside codebases through precise context setting, constraints, agent instructions, prompt/summary traces and verification requirements. Uses AI as a controlled development capability in complex, legacy-heavy and contract-based systems.

Languages

Danish
Native

Native language. Strong written communication and a high sensitivity to tone, precision and wording.

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I use language actively to explain complex technical problems so both technical and non-technical people can act on them.

English
Fluent

Fluent working language. I read, write and work comfortably with technical documentation, open source projects, code, issue reports and international resources.

German
Good comprehension / moderate spoken and written

Good spoken and written comprehension. Functional spoken German and more cautious written German.

Extracurricular

Raeson.dk

Webmaster

Regular technical support and web caretaker for Raeson.dk since 2010.

  • Since 2010, helped with operations, maintenance, troubleshooting and practical web support.

A long-running example of stable, practical web operations and responsibility over time.

Domain connoisseur

Hostmaster

Private and professional interest in domains, naming and web identity.

Domains are not only technical. They are identity, ownership, memory and digital location.