
David Søbæk Olsen
Software developer
Hey! I’m David Søbæk Olsen from Denmark! I’m a software developer passionate about creating reactive, user-focused applications. I love programming, as well as running, bouldering, and learning new things! Feel free to get in touch or take a look at my past work below.
Portfolio
My top projects
Labyrinth Escape!
Maze game I built to implement the recursive backtracker algorithm. Future plan is to work on providing an enemy class with random movement that can block you from finding the finish tile. For more information on the algorithm itself and its relation to maze generation you can read more here and if you are interested in trying out the game you can try it here.
Predicting Glassdoor ratings
Data mining project that implemented unsupervised & supervised machine learning algorithms on a dataset of 100.000 work place ratings at Glassdoor.com. See the project and a description of our methods here
Blockchain hackathon winner
Winner of the 2022 European Blockchain Center Hackathon at the IT University, Copenhagen. We built a Ethereum-based escrow script using Solidity & Truffle for a danish NGO Better Ocean that only allowed withdrawals of accounts when the NGOs committed goals had been documented on the ledger triggering a release of funds.
Landing page
Built a landing page exclusively with html and css to reinforce the fundamentals and using the markup-languages and hosted it on Vercel . The project emulated building a webpage based on a design-brief from a Figma design and customer design specificat
Roskilde Festival, 2023-2025
Festival IT Onsite-support & Core Deploy. Responsibilities included setting up WiFi, fixing printers, repairing cables, and ensuring internet connectivity on stages like the Orange Stage. Mounted racks for equipment, installed cabling, field-tested connections, and documented fibers and onboarding processes to support 100,000 guests each year.