Fullstack consultant2022 - Now

Balance Golf

I am currently working in a setting that I have been dreaming about, for a long time. Getting to be a part of the initial stages of something that I think can be a great product. A true start-up. Helping a successful golf coach organization take a leap into tech development.

We are laying the groundwork for, and testing the viability of a new platform that aims to help golf coaches reach new heights in their trade. Working with a trailblazer in golf coaching to reach even further with his individualized approach to developing a golfers game and swing.

We are really in the business development phase and at the same time developing the tech that we hope, will validate the idea. The challenge of proofing a concept as well as finding market fit, and developing a lasting product, all at the same time. It is to say the least a varying, and exciting challenge.

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Php Postgres Html/Css Javascript (Jquery, React) Github Actions Kubernetes/Helm Golang Product development

DevOps consultant2021 - 2022

Evimeria/Carasent

Back at WebDoc again! After 4+ years away, I got to come back and work with my old friends again.

This time the name of the game was helping my team adapt the platform to meet the needs of the Norwegian market. This involved a decent amount of improving tooling and processes for testing, to achieve velocity. Helping with planning and strategy, as well as moving away from centering around Swedish SSN and adapting the system for multiple languages.

I also made a large effort to be an evangelist for working in with a holistic product oriented mindset, instead of the established project oriented one. Additionally, I wanted to work in a way that would nudge people towards being more engaged across teams, caring about the platform as a whole and sharing in the responsibilities. I did this because I saw that we could reach large improvements by just getting a lot of people to step up, just a little.

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Php Mysql/MariaDB Html/Css Javascript (Jquery) Jenkins DevOps evangelising Organizational support

DevOps consultant2019 - 2022

SMSPark/Easypark

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This period of my career was filled to the brim with new and exiting experience, together with the small, tight-knit group that was left. Both engineering and entrepreneurial challenges.

We were, first off, tasked with constructing support for the flow that would allow the Smspark user base to migrate over to Easypark. As well as the mechanisms that would be central to migrating all the parking zones over to Easyparks roster.

All the while we continued to be on-call and maintaining the Smspark operations and infrastructure. Periodically scaling down to limit costs as the platform cooled down.

We also got to make some contributions to the Easypark products by building some features that Smspark supported into their eco-system.

Once the platform was ready to be decommissioned we had a significant task in archiving the system and cleaning out all data that was not essential anymore. After which we had the strange and bitter/sweet experience of destroying a service that had once handled +1,600,000 transactions/month.

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Php Golang AWS Docker Mysql/Postgres Bash Javascript (Vue) Large-scale data migration Snowflake

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At the end of the summer in 2019 Smspark employees were informed that the company had been acquired, after a long process of trying to sell. The new owners were one of our biggest competitors, Easypark. For a number of reasons, this announcement did not land as well as it could have. This led to large portions of the tech-staff, including myself, to leaving our notice of resignation. Almost all the resigning staff were relieved of their duties on the day that they resigned, I was one of the exceptions.

During my 3-month notice period, I got wind that Easypark would be searching for consultants that could keep the platform running. That is where another colleague, who was still around, decided to float the idea of us taking on the challenge. Instead of getting a third party in, who would need to be brought up to speed.

This is where I founded West Coast Dev, and began my career as a consultant.

Post acquisition news

Backend/DevOps2017 - 2019

Smspark (Inteleon)

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At Inteleon I really got to start my journey towards the DevOps lifestyle. I was fortunate enough to get to work alongside some very talented and forward-thinking people. The bosses, the teammates, coaches and other people in the organization all contributed to teaching me so many new things and helping me improve both my career and my life in general.

Some of the trails that we walked down were; breaking apart a monolith, and migrating to service oriented architecture. Converting the legacy Php system to Golang based services. Static servers with little scalability to container orchestrated infrastructure. We did not get to the end of all of these trails, but we made some good headway and learned a lot.

It was also very rewarding to get to work on a platform that directly impacted so many users, daily. In a month we had upwards or more than unique 1.6M parking transactions. As well as a large scale billing mechanism that serviced all these user transactions.

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Php Golang AWS Docker Terraform Mysql/Postgres Bash Css Html Javascript (Jquery) Git TDD

System developer 2015 - 2017

Webdoc

(Advance/TeleComputing)

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Once again I was back to working with my friends at what was formerly @Lan/WebDoc. I joined under permanent employment as one of the software engineers. We all worked more or less fullstack helping each other out. My responsibilities were, among other things, developing new features in projects, demoing features and handling final integration and merge before the regression testing begins.

During this stint I also got to be a part in a big shift in the way that the software was developed. For example the early parts of a continuous integration pipeline were established, and we started working a lot more with reliable, repeatable testing.

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Php Mysql Css Html Javascript (Jquery) Git BDD

Web developer 2014

Atlan

In the early parts of 2014 I started working with Roofia again, part-time, alongside my studies. We were planning on rebuilding a lot of what had been built so far, and aiming for the system to work well on iPads.

During this time I learned a lot about working with a customer directly. I also learned the hard way, when, why and how, I should pull out of a partnership. Because, as an inexperienced, ambitious, full time student, I made a lot of mistakes. Most harmfully for both the customer and me, I failed to communicate that I was incapable of meeting their needs and nearing burn-out, and almost flunking out, at the end.

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Php Mysql Css Html Javascript (Jquery, JQ mobile)

Web developer / Support 2013 - 2014

Atlan

While studying I wanted to earn some extra money during the summers, and I was lucky enough that @Lan had some work for me to do during those summers.

My work mainly consisted of non-critical development and manning the support hot-line while the regular team were on vacation. The development would vary from bug-squashing to experimental feature development in WebDoc and Roofnet.

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Php Mysql Css Html Javascript (Jquery)

Web programming (Ba. Comp Sci)2012 - 2015

Bleking institute of technology

A 3 year bachelors program in software engineering. The program had a web profile and focused a lot more on practical learning than on for example maths, as traditional computer science programs would.

The courses varied from usability engineering, databases, security, and general software engineering. Along with a healthy dose of courses aimed at specializing in web based technologies. Finishing off with project based courses where we got to collaborate with local companies and, of course, our thesis.

During my time at BTH I was also participating in a lot of extracurricular and social activates surrounding the student union. For example, I was the head of the WebDev for the student union's IT committee.

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Php Javascript Java C++ Mysql Css Html UX Design patterns Security engineering

Web developer 2011 - 2012

Atlan

This was my first job in development, taken in by my cousin, who was laying the groundwork for his future success. I was doing some very basic and questionable systems- and web- development. Mostly learning by doing, since I was extremely new to the field.

I also got to do some operations, in the context of the web hotel side of the business. Mostly messing around with settings in Apache and a CMS system called Arctic fox.

Most notably I was building a work management system for a roof maintenance franchise called Roofia. I realized rather quickly that I would benefit from a base in formal education.

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Php Mysql Css Html Javascript (Jquery)