Resume

Career history, technical background, and education — the long version of what's on the about and projects pages.

Key competencies

  • System design & architecture

    Mapping how the pieces of a system fit together, across a lot of different products and teams.

  • Frontend and design

    React and Next.js day to day. Tailwind CSS for styling, and a preference for flat, functional design over decoration.

  • APIs and databases

    Node.js and TypeScript on the backend, tRPC or REST for APIs, Postgres or MongoDB depending on the shape of the data.

  • DevOps & cloud

    CI/CD as table stakes. Comfortable with serverless and standard cloud infrastructure.

Career

  1. Founder · Homi

    Oct 2025 – Present · Oslo

    Building a collaborative home search tool that replaces messy group chats and spreadsheets with one shared workspace — AI that actually reads the listings.

    Artificial IntelligenceNext.jstRPC

  2. Founding Engineer · Wordware (YC S24)

    Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · San Francisco

    Helped design and scale the product and infrastructure through a $30M seed round. Built parts of the typed multimodal runtime powering structured AI workflows across text, PDFs, images, and audio, and supported company-wide SOC 2 Type I & II compliance.

    Artificial IntelligenceTypeScript

  3. Lead Engineer · Matcha

    Mar 2023 – May 2024

    A platform for professionals and communities investing in growing their network in a focused way.

    Next.jsPrisma ORM

  4. Senior Software Engineer → Dev Team Lead → Engineering Manager · Holaplex

    Nov 2021 – Jan 2023 · Remote

    Grew from IC into managing the engineering team over 15 months, working on distributed systems and Solana-based infrastructure.

    Distributed SystemsSolanaTypeScript

  5. Co-Founder & CTO (Acquired) · Scales

    Mar 2020 – May 2022 · Palo Alto

    Enterprise software for designing and automating employee engagement programs. Connected 1,000+ people worldwide across 3,000+ program interactions during private beta, averaging a 4.8/5 experience score.

  6. Product Lead · Husleie.no

    Jul 2019 – Feb 2020 · Oslo

    Digitising the landlord–tenant relationship. Facilitated specs and process across the org alongside serial entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

  7. Consultant · Netlight

    Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 · Oslo / Berlin

    Client work at VG/Schibsted (partner integration API, an article recommendation system, GDPR-compliant consent handling) and at Klarna Bank in Berlin, preparing the merchant onboarding flow for its US launch.

    Recommendation SystemsMySQLNext.js

  8. Digital Manager / Digital Consultant · Crux Advisers

    Jan 2017 – Oct 2018 · Oslo

    Led digitalization efforts, introducing new communication software and moving the company into the cloud.

  9. Consultant · Junior Consulting

    Oct 2016 – Dec 2017 · Trondheim

    Norway's first student-owned consultancy. Managed projects building the website for startup incubator ArkwrightX and for DHT Corporate Services.

  10. Founder · I.D.A.I Solutions

    Jun 2014 – Oct 2017

    My own part-time shop through university, building websites with a focus on interaction design and tailored analytics.

  11. Scrum Master · Capra Consulting

    Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · Oslo

    Ran a seven-week summer internship program as Scrum Master for a team of seven, building a full-stack app for an international shipping startup client.

  12. Software Engineer, Innovation Intern · Storebrand

    Jun 2016 – Aug 2016

    Built an MVP web app with a multidisciplinary team using Lean Startup methods, presented to the board and later released to market.

    MeteorJSLean Startup

  13. Software Engineer Intern · pantree co

    Feb 2016 – Jun 2016 · Melbourne

    Part-time mobile-first web development during my exchange at the University of Melbourne.

  14. Software Developer Intern · dSAFE

    Jun 2015 – Dec 2015

    Rewrote a critical piece of enterprise software from C# to Python, improving its architecture along the way.

    PythonC#

Before all that: national service in the Norwegian Armed Forces (2012), a Fulbright leadership program in the US (2011), and a few summers behind the register at Norsk Folkemuseum.

Education

  • MSc in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim · 2013 – 2018

    Specialization in artificial intelligence and recommendation systems. Thesis on AI-based apartment matching.

  • Study Abroad / Exchange

    University of Melbourne, Australia · 2015 – 2016

    One year abroad as part of the NTNU degree.

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