Frederik Gram Kortegaard

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About

Systems engineer building compilers, developer tools, and decentralized systems. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Intree and Fractional CTO at IHairium. Former AI/RL researcher at the University of Southern Denmark.

Writing

• Compiler Fundamentals - Building a compiler from scratch in Python
• Compiler Optimization - CFG, SSA, dataflow analysis, and optimization passes

Projects

• Iris - Optimizing compiler in Rust with SSA, CFG analysis, and dataflow-driven optimization passes
• Eridu - A C-like programming language with custom x86-64 code generation (thesis)
• August - Bitcoin-style blockchain with a custom smart contract language, compiler, and EVM-style VM
• Kish - Research on scale-invariant optimizers and attention-recurrence hybrids (thesis)

Experience

• Senior Software Engineer at Intree (2025-present)
• Fractional CTO at IHairium (2025-present)
• Software Engineer at Seculyze (2024-2025)
• Freelance Software Engineer at Invoke
• Software Engineering Intern at Universal Robots (2020)
• Technical Consultant at Findwise A/B (2019-2020)

Education

• M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark (2022-2024)
• B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark (2019-2022)

Research

Research Scientist at The Adaptive Intelligence Lab (ADIN), University of Southern Denmark (2023-2024). Developed OrthAdam optimizer and AttentionSplit architecture.

Last modified: January 2025