Trond Aarskog
Sr Solution Architect at Microsoft
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolTrond Aarskog is a seasoned Sr Solution Architect based in Oslo, Norway, with over 25 years of experience shaping cloud-first solution architectures. He currently serves as Sr Solution Architect at Microsoft, bridging cloud platforms, Dynamics 365, Azure, and AI-enabled business applications since 2021. Earlier at OBOS, he led architecture teams for cloud and integration, and drove CRM modernization toward a unified member experience. His career spans Avanade, Accenture, Canal Digital and Microsoft, delivering complex CRM, middleware, and integration solutions across financial services, media, telecom, and retail. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the BotFramework-WebChat with Norwegian Bokmål translations and default localization, underscoring a rare blend of hands-on coding and global product impact.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer / Automation, Engineer, Computer / Automation at Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ)Ski VGS
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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2answers
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Github Skills (17)
internationalization10
localization10
bot-framework10
chatbot9
adaptive-cards7
dynamics-crm6
azure6
schema6
aspnet-web-api6
javascript6
bundle6
typescripts5
typescript-types5
javascripts5
typescript25
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Trond primarily focused on internationalization and localization within the bot framework, specifically adding and updating language translations. They added Norwegian Bokmål and made it the default for Norwegian, including translations for core strings. Furthermore, the user added Norwegian translations for VAT and other UI elements and updated the Norwegian translation package, demonstrating a focus on expanding the framework's international support.
conversational-aibotchatazure-bothighly-customizable
taarskog/pySOMweb
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 32 pushes, 21 tags in 1 year 3 months
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