Curriculum Vitae

Introduction

Dedicated web developer with an eye out for The Next Big Thing™ capable and eager to work on projects small and large where the vision is greater than the sum of its parts. An independent worker with a fluid mind ensures out-of-the-box thinking and a unique approach to problems and solutions.

But who am I?

Well, My Facebook profile is completely public, so is my Github profile, and sometimes I tweet stuff. I like weightlifting, programming, meditation, and motorcycles. I'm not a big fan of skiing, though it taught me valuable life lessons about priorities through injury. I like to write, which I do privately at my blog and I have been known to rant about topics that disturb me at Iterate's blog.

I run a company registered in Sweden called vardevs. I don't do much with it except host sites, buy domains, administer servers and the occasional development and operations for friends and family. It's an ongoing learning experiment about how a company works and has taught me about taxes, VAT, inter-country invoices, book keeping and publishing yearly reports.

Right now I work at DHIS2 as the frontend architect with overall responsibilities for how we develop web apps. At DHIS2 we build an open-source health management information system which is deployed as the national health management system throughout in many countries, and being piloted in many more. Very exciting stuff to be honest.

All-in-all curious is a word I would not mind being applied to my personality. I know it can have multiple meanings but I still don't mind. ;)

What's happened recently?

• Frontend Architect:

  • 2017–, DHIS2: front-end architect, team lead

• Consulting, last 3 customers:

  • 2015–2016 Amedia: back-end, front-end, team lead, devops
  • 2016–2017 Cisco: front-end, devops, tech lead
  • 2017–2017 PorterBuddy: devops, cloud architect

• Professional development at Iterate

  • Mentor for developers
  • Board member
  • Recruitment

What'll happen next?

It is of increasing import to have meaning in my work, and to support this goal, first the word 'meaning' needs to be unpacked. This far I have these principles to guide me towards meaningful work:

• Create value
• Reduce waste

Favorite books

• Pragmatic Programmer
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Flatland
• Steppenwolf

Work Experience

2017–present, Frontend Architect, DHIS2, Oslo (Norway)

Responsibilities include:

• Team Leader
• Architect for how we build frontend applications

2013–2017, Solutions Engineer, Iterate, Oslo (Norway)

Projects for:

• Amedia
• Cisco
• Gjensidige
• Woolit

2010–present, Owner, vardevs, (Sweden)

Projects for:

• HMode
• JC Älmhult
• Verona Motor
• Svärdells AB
• Perigee

2011–2013, Software Engineer, Accenture, Oslo (Norway)

Projects for:

• NAV
• SPK

2008–2010, Consultant, Cybercom Group, Karlskrona (Sweden)

Projects for:

• Svenska Handelsbanken
• Sony Ericsson Mobile Sweden
• Ericsson / FIFA

2005–2008, Web-developer, Kaxig Idébyrå, Älmhult (Sweden)

Projects for:

• Kaxig

Skills

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I focus on the bigger picture and strive to be full-stack. NodeJS, Python, Java, *sh running on Linux, Windows and MacOS are the primary system level environments I rely on to do my job. JavaScript, HTML and CSS to create great user experiences in the client and back it using database storage such as IndexedDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL which I write hand-tuned SQL for. I deploy using VPS technology and set it up to hardened linux configuration and nginx for serving content and proxying requests to applications.

For heavy hitters I set up cloud deployment to e.g. Akamai, Amazon's Cloud, or Google's Cloud and use metrics to automatically scale load-balance the production environments. Measurements drive a pro-active development mentality.

I test my code using automated routines which run against every commit to our preferred VCS, the marvellous Git. I am autonomous within the team's alignment. I take responsibility for our work as a whole and help out where I can.

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