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Experience

Eventlista.no

Co-founder. May 2023—Present.

Eventlista.no is a Norwegian platform for social events, where creators can share information about their event and track who will attend. The site has a strong focus on minimalism, user-friendliness, privacy, and security. In contrast to many other sites, it is advertisement-free, and structured as a social entrepreneurship project.

  • Lead backend developer
  • Mobile-first web and native app lead developer
  • Product focused development using agile methods and feedback from users
  • Android and iPhone app development and maintenance

Platform Engineer. Nov 2017—Present.

Worked in Nais and data platform teams. Together, we build and run the Norwegian public sector’s most successful application platform. Most of our code is open source and hosted on GitHub: Nais, Nav.

  • Established a highly available system for wide-scale application deployment to Kubernetes
  • Managed Kubernetes on-premises and on Google Cloud Platform
  • Contributed to Naisdevice, a secure way to access company IT resources
  • Participated in 24/7 second-line support
  • Wrote many integrations and tools
  • Software architecture, public speaking, community work
  • Building a modern data lake ingest platform

Meteorologisk institutt (MET Norway)

Software Engineer. Dec 2013—Nov 2017.

During my time as a systems engineer at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, I have worked with many different technology and software stacks, developed both in-house and parts of bigger open source software projects. The work has mostly revolved around modernization, automation, and ­systems integration.

  • Designed and implemented the continuous deployment pipeline for the MET API
  • Monitoring, metrics and log collection, data visualisation, alerting, business intelligence
  • Lead developer in several software and operations projects
  • Infrastructure automation using Chef and Ansible
  • Flow-based programming using C++, Python, and Golang
  • Internal talks and workshops

Incendio

Founder. Nov 2007—Dec 2013.

I have provided web and system development services, system administration, hardware administration, and tech support on Windows and Linux.

  • Developed a web application framework, employed in numerous apartment projects showcasing houses for sale
  • Developed a proprietary REST API backend for the Clue digital dictionary
  • Developed customizations for content management systems

FreeCode AS

Web Developer. May 2011—Nov 2012.

Worked as a consultant at FreeCode, using open source libraries and frameworks for web development, mainly on the Linux, Django, PostgreSQL, nginx stack.

  • Lead developer on a rewrite of SomeBody.no, an online diet control service

OnlineGuiden.no AS

CTO. Oct 2010—Nov 2011.

As the sole technical staff in the Internet marketing firm OnlineGuiden.no, I had responsibility for the entire hardware and software stack.

  • Architecture, design, implementation, and operations of in-house CRM system and public­facing website
  • Hardware and software acquisitions
  • Migration of web platform and data from Microsoft to Linux environment
  • Tech support for company employees
  • Business strategy and planning

Comunic AS

Trainee. Aug 2006—Nov 2007.

In Comunic, I performed various tasks such as troubleshooting, tech support, customer training, and web development.