Senior Backend Engineer building scalable, reliable production systems.

2022 — 2024

Equinor — Backend Engineer

Backend engineer on Equinor’s Technical Information Exchange (TIE), a cloud-based integration platform handling large and growing data volumes between internal systems and external vendors.

• Designed and implemented a next-generation Excel ingestion and conversion pipeline
• Built tooling to visualize message structures, validation errors, and warnings
• Contributed to an event-driven architecture improving stability and fault handling

C# · .NET · Azure · Event-driven systems

2021 — 2022

Equinor — Data Engineer

Worked on the Atlas Data Platform, consolidating and processing high-volume financial data in a modern data lake architecture.

• Migrated legacy workloads to Azure Databricks and Delta Lake
• Built high-throughput ELT pipelines using PySpark
• Developed reusable Python libraries to standardize data ingestion

Python · PySpark · Databricks · Delta Lake · Azure

2021

Aquateknikk AS — Backend / IoT Engineer

Developed backend and IoT systems for land-based fish farming operations, supporting simulation-driven development and reliable on-site deployments.

• Built MQTT-based control interfaces for industrial equipment
• Developed installation, backup, and recovery tooling
• Worked with Docker, Linux, and Azure-based deployments

C# · Python · MQTT · Docker · Azure · Linux

Norwegian Housing Market Data Platform

End-to-end data platform aggregating housing advertisements from the Norwegian market to analyze pricing, geography, facilities, and time-on-market trends.

• Continuously collected listings using a Python scraper running on a Raspberry Pi
• Designed ETL pipelines for data cleaning, normalization, and enrichment
• Built an interactive dashboard for exploratory and comparative analysis

Python · Data engineering · Web scraping · Streamlit · Heroku

FinnScraper

Automated ingestion service for reliably collecting newly listed housing ads from Finn.no over time.

• Implemented idempotent scraping logic to prevent duplicate records
• Scheduled daily execution via cron with Discord webhook notifications
• Stored structured datasets locally for downstream analytics

Python · Cron · Automation · TinyDB

Norway 1910 Census Data Analysis

Large-scale data processing project analyzing historical census data provided by Digitalarkivet.

• Processed approximately 6GB of semi-structured XML census data using Hadoop
• Flattened and normalized historical records into analyzable formats
• Mapped historical municipalities to modern equivalents for visualization

Hadoop · Distributed systems · XML · Data analysis

FreezeNet — Neural Network Watermarking

Research-oriented system for embedding digital signatures into trained neural networks to enable licensing and ownership verification.

• Designed watermarking mechanisms integrated directly into model training
• Enabled identification of redistributed or copied neural models
• Explored proof-of-work concepts tied to neural network training

Python · Machine learning · Applied cryptography

AR Object Placement and Interaction

Augmented reality application enabling dynamic placement and manipulation of virtual objects within a real-world environment.

• Built a context-aware UI for object creation and transformation
• Implemented extensible asset and interaction systems
• Designed the system to support easy extension with new object types

C# · Unity · AR · Interactive systems

Genetic Algorithm for Dynamic Control

Genetic algorithm and neural network implementation for solving dynamic control problems such as cart–pole balancing.

• Implemented genetic algorithm and neural network from scratch
• Designed custom fitness functions to encourage robust solutions
• Visualized simulations and performance metrics concurrently

Python · Genetic algorithms · Neural networks · Simulation