About
My name is Mathias Biilmann Christensen and I am the sole habitant of this small planet adrift in cyberspace. A Dane living in Madrid, a programmer with an education in musicology, literature and cultural studies, and a humanist with a passion for computers.
I am currently the director of development at domestika.com, leading the efforts to take forward the platform we use for our massive production of web sites.
In the programming part of my daily work I mostly get to read and write a lot of Ruby and PHP, but I am a bit of a language freak and love playing around with Haskell, Erlang, Factor and whatever makes me curious; as long as I am not writing code that my colleagues will eventually have to touch.
As a leader I believe in treating programmers as the highly intelligent, technically skilled and mature adults they ought to be. I believe in making people take responsibility, acting as a facilitator for my teams and removing obstructions for their productivity. Making people communicate, about the code they write, about why they write it, and with those they are writing it for.
At Domestika I have been implementing agile methodologies based on XP, Lean and Scrum and am always hard at work trying to keep stuff agile, fun and flexible, while dealing with a growth in the size of our company, that never ceases to amaze me.
To get in touch with me, fire of an email to: info@mathias-biilmann.net