Staff Software Engineer
Aug 2016 - Present
• 8 yrs 6 mosBuilding Google's first generally available coding agent, Jules. Get on the waitlist: http://labs.google.com/jules. Agents using Gemini to solve end-to-end programming tasks.
Previously:
* Tech Lead in Google Research, Applied AI. Dubbing with AI; Data pipelines, ML infrastructure and general systems & products using foundation models.
* Tech Lead manager in Assistant Auto, bringing sophisticated voice control to cars everywhere
* Tech Lead Manager in Google Health, utilizing AI, deep learning, data mining and Information Retrieval to transform how doctors use data to treat patients.
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2014 - Aug 2016
• 2 yrs 1 moI was a Software Engineer and Tech Lead while building and launching Family Link, Google's first ever offering for kids and their families - making the internet safer and more fun.
Software Engineer
Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
• 11 mosPayments infrastructure, building distributed data processing systems that handle over 400 Billion transactions a day, for hundreds of millions of users.
Software Engineer, Tech Lead and CTO
Companybook
Sep 2011 - Sep 2013
• 2 yrs 1 moCrawling, indexing, analysing and searching content and news about every company in the world. To cope with mountains of data we extensively used Hadoop MapReduce, HBase, Pig, Hive and ZooKeeper. Over the course of my 2 years at Companybook, I acted as a tech lead for the backend team, and for a while also filled in as CTO.
Software Development Engineer II
Microsoft (former FAST Search & Transfer)
May 2009 - Sep 2011
• 2 yrs 5 mosAs part of the Bing team in Oslo, I built large-scale analytics tools, creating applications on top of our proprietary MapReduce-like framework. Subsequently, building the search engine for SharePoint 365.
Senior System Developer
IntelliSearch
Aug 2006 - Jun 2008
• 1 yr 11 mosEnterprise search - I built our document processing pipeline, crawlers for a range of heterogeneous systems, and core search engine technology.
Senior Consultant
Webstep Stavanger AS
May 2005 - Jul 2006
• 1 yr 3 mosSoftware development expert for hire on projects for major clients, including Petroleum (Halliburton), Finance (SKAGEN Fondene), Logistics (Gilde) and others.
Software Developer
Halliburton
Oct 2004 - Apr 2005
• 7 mosFull stack engineer involved in every stage from conceptualization to development, productionization, support and maintenance. Mainly, software engineering using Oracle, Java and .NET technology. Major projects include major logistics systems, integration between SAP and Active Directory, and numerous B2B-projects.
Software Design Engineer Intern
Microsoft
Jun 2004 - Sep 2004
• 4 mosI worked in the SQL Server Team, specifically the WinFS Sync group, where I developed a showcase application which was used for years to promote the sync capabilities of Bill Gates' brainchild WinFS.