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Architecture Board Organization

Architecture Board Members

The Architecture Board makes sure that responsibilities of the board are being followed as well as overseeing technology and architecture choices of T&I projects and products.

An important task of the Architecture board is to make sure that product and project development staff applies to DHI Development Guidelines.

The Architecture Board consists of principal/key architects in the DHI regions and has the following members:

  • Kristian Thage - Head of Architecture (Hørsholm, Denmark)
    Managing Architecture decisions and ensuring that required principles are written and the DHI architectural landscape is communicated to the organisation.
  • Franz Thomsen - Oceania (Gold Coast, Australia)
    Franz represents Australia and New Zealand (Australasia). Franz has a long DHI history working on both projects, DHI Seaport as well as being one of the masterminds behind Domain Servies. Recently, Franz has been working with AI in particular using AI and agents in software development.
  • Jesper Grooss - Europe (Hørsholm, Denmark)
    Provides an insight into MIKE engine technologies used, architectural decisions made and decisions to be made within the area of the MIKE engines.
  • Veradej Phipatanasuphorn - Southeast Asia (Singapore)
    Veradej is the architectual anchorpoint of T&I projects in the region.
  • Dylan Kime - North America (Denver, Colorado)
    Dylan is a full stack architect and expert developer involved in most projects in the region of North America.

Supporting Groups

As part of doing architecture and technology alignment as well as writing guidelines, the Architecture Board facilitates the technology and process alignment using T&I development staff in all country offices of DHI.

Guidelines Management Group

The Guidelines Management Group owns the creation, lifecycle, and adoption of software development guidelines.

It ensures guidelines are consistent, actionable, governed, and aligned with enterprise architecture, engineering strategy, and compliance requirements.

The group will drive guidelines work and/or being key members of guidelines taskforces.

This group contains T&I staff:

  • Architects
  • Subject Matter Experts
  • Guideline owners
  • Primary task force members
  • Task force members

Alignment Group

The alignment group:

  • acts as the bridge between the Guidelines Management Group and delivery teams, ensuring consistency, feasibility, and organizational alignment before guidelines are approved and published.
  • participate in technology and architecture alignment.

The group contains GBU and T&I staff:

  • Architects
  • Product Owners
  • Guideline stakeholders
  • Department managers/leads
  • Senior developers
  • Employees participating in guidelines roll-out