Freddy Kristiansen
Experienced technology leader bridging strategy, innovation, and architecture.
📋 Biography
With more than 23 years of experience at Microsoft, where he played a key role in shaping the Business Central developer ecosystem. He was responsible for tools such as Docker-based development, BcContainerHelper, and AL-Go for GitHub, helping partners modernize CI/CD, and DevOps practices. After leaving Microsoft, Freddy founded Freddy.DK ApS, where he now helps partners and customers adopt new technologies including AL-Go for GitHub, AI, and no-code platforms such as Lovable, with a strong focus on practical implementation. Freddy works for Directions For Partners, responsible for the technical content for Directions EMEA, Directions Asia, and Days of Knowledge events. He is also a frequent host of webinars and the gatekeeper and maintainer of the Cloud Customer Management solution on GitHub. Known for his pragmatic approach and deep technical expertise, Freddy combines strategic insight with hands-on experience to help organizations turn new technology into real business value.
✨ High-Impact Contributions 5
Answering questions, fixing bugs, enhancing functionality and suggesting new feature implementations.
I have created an open-source project which is intended to be the place, where all partners list their public or private nuget feeds. A one-stop-shop for getting information about how to setup builds including other repositories. The repository is up-running and will be announced on the webinar on february 3rd.
The Cloud Customer Management Solution is an open-source intiative, which is ment to be the defacto tool used by partners to manage their online customers. We are hosting this tool (and other open-source initiatives) under the Directions for partners umbrella, to make them less Freddy and more Community.
Answering questions, fixing bugs, enhancing functionality and suggesting new feature implementations. Now, working with customers and partners outside Microsoft, I run into issues and missing features which I drive the solution of, either by notifying the team or creating PRs.
Answering questions, fixing bugs, enhancing functionality and suggesting new feature implementations. Now, working with customers and partners outside Microsoft, I run into issues and missing features which I drive the solution of, either by notifying the team or creating PRs.