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About me

Working in the interface between business and technology, I transform business needs into tangible solutions and services. Sometimes by myself, but I prefer to be surrounded by a team that is well smarter than me.

I have co-founded five and worked at/for/with many companies in my career, experiencing everything from military installations and multi-national enterprises, to a bootstrapped startup in Silicon Valley working out of a motel room.

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Manager

Two decades of leading development teams & infrastructure projects — in-house, contractors, and increasingly, AI agents. Turns out managing humans was just training for managing bots.

Sysadmin

Nearly 30 years of keeping servers alive, from hand-racked hardware to Kubernetes clusters. Linux by heart, comfortable anywhere there's a terminal. Automate first, ask questions later.

Developer

Did DevOps before it had a name — first CI pipeline was Hudson, CVS and CFEngine in 1998. Still happiest when writing code that makes infrastructure do what it's told.

toolbox
Elixir Phoenix LiveView Ecto Oban Absinthe GraphQL TypeScript React Elm Alpine.js Tailwind CSS Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Stripe OIDC OAuth2 Docker AWS Azure PostgreSQL Redis ELK XMPP GitLab Jira Jamf PRO NGINX HAProxy PKI SAML Python C/C++/C# Java Jenkins Git Scrum Kanban Postfix OpenLDAP Active Directory Linux *BSD macOS
now
CTO / CIO
Eyr Medical AS
since 2020
CEO
Avoir AS
since 2018
previously
2018 – 2020
CIO
Eyr Medical AS
Started as a contractor then transitioned into permanent position. Eyr had previously been a client of Adell Group.
2009 – 2017
CTO & Co-founder
Adell Group AS
MSP serving healthcare, oil/gas and aerospace. Built and ran datacenters connecting classified networks to the open internet. Consulted for Dolby Laboratories on infrastructure and DevOps.
Acquired by Upheads AS in 2016
2011
Co-Founder, Technology
Vorstack Corporation
Security startup founded in a Silicon Valley motel room. Built multi-cloud threat intelligence and vulnerability scanning across AWS, GCE & Rackspace.
Vorstack (later Brightpoint) was acquired by ServiceNow in 2016
2003 – 2009
CTO & Co-founder
Diptel AS
Internet based VoIP service for the domestic SMB market. Custom Linux distribution with Asterisk & SER SIP proxy, administered from a web based GUI.
Acquired by Telecomputing Norway AS in 2015
2002 – 2009
Partner
Delantero Ltd
Consultancy providing infrastructure and systems engineering services on contract to a previous client. Work covered under NDA.
2002 – 2003
Conscript / Unix Operator
NATO Joint Warfare Centre Norway
Military conscript service. They were going to send me to Finnmark to defend the border — until they found out I knew Unix.
2001 – 2002
Consultant
Isonor IT AS
The bubble popped. Picked up consulting work to keep the lights on. As someone once said: "enjoy the party, but dance close to the door." Lesson learned.
1999 – 2001
System Administrator
Core Convergence AS
Digital Ungdom all grown up — local investors came in, we got a proper office and job titles. Peak dotcom energy. We built websites, managed servers, and briefly believed valuations were real.
1998 – 1999
Sysadmin / Developer
Digital Ungdom AS
Started with a group of friends from high school, delivering websites to anyone who would pay. Peak dotcom era — business wasn't terrible, but we weren't great businessmen.
1997 – 1998
Junior System Administrator
Spindelveven Internett
The big league — a proper ISP. Primarily webmaster duties, backup management for the Linux infrastructure, and some Cisco router configuration.
1997 – 1998
Intern programmer
Contrazt Design
First job. Built an internet gateway for a design studio — a Linux box with an ISDN card, NAT and a Perl-based web interface to manage it all. Felt like magic at the time.