Steen Hulthin Rasmussen (home)

I’m a software developer and/or GIS dude. My main expertise is working with digital map, spatial data and GIS products at all levels of the technology stack.

In my work life I’m a code monkey/GIS consultant in Geoinfo A/S. I have standard CV available for download with a standard resume of some of the things I have done professionally even though I’m not a big fan of standard CVs.

Copenhagen, Denmark is my home town. I live there together with my girlfriend and between 1 and 3 children. I really enjoy running, biking and chocolate. I love life.

I’m also a failed chess and guitar player, a Dane (and actually half-swedish, thanks to Mom), around 45 (thanks to Mom and Dad), bald (thanks to Dad) and a chocolate lover (did I mention that already?).

The worst/best of me

These are the things I hate most about myself

The perpetual biting of nails! Stop it!
That I start 10 code projects and only ship 1. Can You please just finish half?!
That I can so rarely start anything without first procrastinating.

These are the things I love most about myself:

I’m so incredibly lucky. Not in games and such, but where it really matters: I have never had to starve, never seen a war, I’m healthy and so are my children, I can afford all I really need and I’m a white European male and I even had good childhood and great parents.
I love that I can make people smile and I don’t really care if I’m smiled at or with.
That I still what to improve and what to learn new things even as a semi-old person as much as I did when I was younger.

Things I’ve done

Won the Nordic championship in chess for school teams.
Qualified for the Nordic championship in chess for high school teams.
Run a marathon.
Worked as foreign student ‘buddy’ coordinator at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) - hard, but fun.
Lived in Thailand for half a year - twice.
Graduated as an Environmental Engineer.
By coincidence become a (untrained) Software Developer.
Run half marathon world championship race more than twice as slow as the winner.

Community

I feel a part of the global software development community. In my opinion you are a member of a community even if you only “consuming” and not contributing in the a more traditional way. I have presented at a couple of occasions and I contribute when time permits it, but only because I like it.

I attend conferences regularly. I have been attending Oredev every year since 2011, Leetspeak since it’s start in 2012 and Danish Developer Conference since 2013.

Projects

I maintain a few Open Source Software projects:

In the serious catagory are:

reStructuredText_NPP - Syntax highlighting for reStructuredText for Notepad++.
FreeMarker_NPP - Syntax highlighting for the template language FreeMarker for Notepad++.

In the mostly for fun category are:

The Anti Region Legion - a coding style movement for a better C# world.
LOLCODE_NPP - Syntax highlighting for LOLCODE for Notepad++.
CollatzConjecture.Net - a .net library for calculating solutions to Collatz Conjecture problems.
MapBasicUnit - A unit testing library for the MapBasic language. MapBasic is a language for the desktop GIS MapInfo. I don’t think anyone has ever used this.

Besides writing code I also write blog posts. The topic is mostly technical stuff related to software development and/or GIS, but occasionally also about management and team work. You can find my blog on https://steen.hulthin.dk/blog/.

Me on the web

Email steen@hulthin.dk

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