Kresten Krab Thorup

Innovator in advanced systems engineering, with experience in language implementation, programming language tools and foundation frameworks for distributed programming, i/o, transactions and security. The focus of my work is always to make things more easy to understand, and to help other people better understand.

Kresten Krab Thorup’s Specialties:

runtime systems, programming language implementation, profiler tools, server architecture, network protocols, transaction management

Kresten Krab Thorup’s Experience

Board Member

Interprise Consulting

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Board Member

Delta Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
CTO

Trifork

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TRIFOR.CO; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)
Chief Editor

JAOO Conference

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )
Owner

Trifork

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TRIFOR.CO; Computer Software industry)

November 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)
Consultant

OOVM

(Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — February 2006 (2 months)
Consultant

PowerTV, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

February 1996 — June 1996 (5 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

NeXT

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1993 — February 1996 (2 years 5 months)

Kresten Krab Thorup’s Education

Aarhus Universitet

Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000

During this period, i worked on "PRC Tools", a gcc toolchain for the m68k/palmos.

Activities and Societies:

Datcaféen, daimiposten
The University of Tokyo

Computer Science 1998 — 1998

During this period, i wrote gij (GNU Interpreted Java) which is now distributed as part of gcc/gcj, and a verifier for the Java Virtual Machine.
Aalborg Universitet

B.Sc. , Computer Science , 1989 — 1993

Wrote the runtime system for GNU Objective-C, the AUC TeX emacs mode, and the calc package for LaTeX.

Activities and Societies:

F-klubben, Juntaen
Varde Gymnasium

1986 — 1989
Blåkilde Ungdomsskole

1984 — 1986
Brorsonskolen

1976 — 1984