Klaus Elk

Klaus Elk (1960-) graduated as MSc. in Electronics in 1984 with a thesis on Digital Signal Processing. There was no 'IT' branch in engineering back then, so he gained most of his knowledge in embedded software and real-time kernels as on-the-job training in the following years - starting with Mobile Phones at 'Storno' which later became part of GE. He was the sole SW-developer on the Dantec 'Cantata' - an instrument that measures on muscles and nerves. He took a bachelor in Marketing but stayed in R&D instead of moving to the 'dark side'.

Going back into Telecom he worked with SDH at NKT Elektronik and later with creating a TCP Offload Engine at IPBlaze. The last 15 years he has worked at Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration, and he is currently R&D Manager for Instrumentation.

In parallel with some of the above, Klaus Elk taught OOP and Networks at the Danish Technical University for 10 years. He is married and is the father of three girls and grandfather to a boy and a girl.