About

I am a principal officer and for the past five years I have been leading a team of developers at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. Before going into leadership, I were involved in several large-scale projects as a full-stack developer with a focus on Java in the Norwegian public and private sector for twelve years. I have a masters degree in computer science, and extensive experience from several non-profit communities in Oslo.

As a person, I am strongly driven by my personal values: justice, respect, patience, courage, humility and compassion. I believe in people and I like to build and be a part of communities that share the same values.

In my blog, I write about tech, but also about my perspectives on topics that concern the world we live in. As developers and leaders in tech we can change the world through code - but more importantly through our actions. I am a strong believer of fairness and people helping each other to build better communities and a better world.

In my spare time, I do voluntary work for non-profit groups. I have more than ten years of experience as organiser of meetups, workshops, and conferences for developers. I'm currently the leader of the Oslo branch of JavaBin (the Norwegian Java User Group), and previously I were also the chairman of the JavaBin board.

Additionally I'm one of the co-organisers of Oslo Software Architecture, and I also helped building the Tekna Developer Network (part of the Norwegian Engineering Union). Finally, I have been one the volunteers co-leading Teknologihuset (House of Technology), a concept that has been providing free meeting rooms and conference facilities for non-profit meetup groups.

In September 2019, JavaBin won the Duke's Choice Award for its work as a JUG with several generations of volunteers keeping it alive and prospering. In October 2019, I was awarded the Java Champion title for my contributions to the Java community.

I have spoken at various conferences and meetups locally and internationally, such as JavaOne, JavaZone, JFokus, Devoxx, JDK.IO, TDC and several more conferences. You can find slides, code and recordings of my talks here. I love programming languages and algorithms, and I use GitHub mostly for sharing my experimentation and learning.

Do want you want to get in touch or invite me to speak at your event? Contact me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible (I usually respond within a day).