Michael Seifert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Seifert
Occupation	Computer Programmer
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1969(1969-02-01)
Age	55
Birthplace	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Birth City	Capital Region of Denmark
Horoscope	Aquarius

Michael Seifert Biography

Michael Seifert is one of the most popular and richest Computer Programmer who was born on February 1, 1969 in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark. Seifert was the son of Erik J. Thomsen (Denmark) and Kirsten Seifert (Denmark). He was two years old when his parents divorced. Carl Seifert, Seifert’s great-grandfather (d. 1935), was a Danish blacksmith who also manufactured and was listed in the Kraks Blue Book (Kraks Bla Bog), which contains information about well-known Danes from 1929.

Seifert was joined by Hans Henrik Staerfeldt (and later Katja Nyboe), at DIKU in June 1990 to develop DikuMUD. This is a text-based, multiplayer role- playing game that is a type MUD. DikuMUD was a popular multi-user game that became freely available because of its similar gameplay to Dungeons & Dragons.

Seifert started Pentia in 1998 as a systems integration company focused on Microsoft technologies. As consultants, Seifert and his team were hired to design and implement websites, among other things, for a number of large Danish international corporations. To make their jobs easier, Thrane had devised a set of automated tools and methods for developing and managing websites. At the time, making changes to a website required the expertise of a programmer or developer. The group recognized a growing demand for their website services and decided to turn Thrane’s invention into a marketable product (that would today be classified as a content management system).

After graduating, Seifert made efforts to commercialize DikuMUD and, later, start an online casino business, neither of which proved fruitful. In 1998, with fellow University of Copenhagen students Thomas Albert, Jakob Christensen, Peter Christensen, and Ole Sas Thrane, Seifert co-founded systems integration company Pentia A/S, from which Sitecore was later spun off as a separate business entity.

Seifert and his team released DikuMUD’s source code in October 1990. It became the root of the largest tree of derived codes from a MUD-like package of source code. The team then moved on to DikuMUD II development, which is still running today under the Valhalla MUD name.

Michael Seifert Net Worth

Michael Seifert is one of the richest Computer Programmer from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Seifert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Seifert, a Danish computer programmer and inventor, is an entrepreneur in the IT sector. He was born in Copenhagen in February 1969. He co-developed DikuMUD, an online multiplayer text-based role playing game, and is chief executive officer at Sitecore, a global customer service management software company that he founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2001. Seifert was awarded the IT-Prisen (Denmark’s annual IT Prize) in 2013 for his lifetime achievements in information technology.

Seifert lived with his mother and his two brothers on Bornholm, Denmark. Seifert lived in San Rafael, California, with his father. He immigrated to America and established the microcomputer products company Sun-Flex Company. Xidex Corporation later bought it. His father invented an anti-glare device that could be used to protect computer terminals. It was granted United States Patent number 4,253,737 by the United States in 1981. Seifert’s first summer vacation with his father was when he became interested in computers. He also wrote his first computer program. Seifert, a friend, and his mother helped him start Danbyte, his first IT company. Danbyte imported computer disks from Bornholm.

From 1990 to 1996, Seifert attended the University of Copenhagen, where he received a master of science degree in computer science and an exam.art in human computer interaction. His 135-page university thesis, Evaluation and Implementation of Operating System Support for Multiple Network Interfaces was co-authored with Ole Sas Thrane and published in 1995. It was at DIKU (Danish: Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet)—the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen—where Seifert got involved in the DikuMUD project and also met the colleagues with whom he would later found Sitecore.

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In 2014 Seifert was included in the Kraks Blue Book (Kraks Blå Bog).

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Programmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Denmark. Michael Seifert celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year.