Kristian Pedersen

About Kristian

CTO and product generalist looking for opportunities to start or join a new company. Open to relocating down the road.

Entrepreneurial, execution and very business minded pragmatic, strategic, first principle, long term thinker with 20 years of commercial international digital experience in a broad range of sectors.

I spent the last 10 years or so managing developers or agencies but I do still love coding - full stack mostly Laravel / TailwindCSS.

Experience includes

• Startup CTO - managed early dev team from idea to funding
• Building MVP's for a couple of early stage startups
• Managing and executing large scale corporate digital projects from agency brief to global rollout
• Hands-on product management, product development and agile project management
• Stakeholder management and change management
• Lead cross-functional teams through the entire product development lifecycle
• Managing long term offshore digital development teams and outsourced projects.
• Designing and building website platforms capable of handling multiple sites or subdivisions
• Streamlining development and rollout processes, version control, disaster recovery and backup, scaling for traffic and other measures necessary for long term projects
• Website information architecture and design. Externally facing websites
• Specifications, IA, UX and vendor selection
• Conversion optimization and metrics