Alf Nilsen
Head Of App & Comms at Vipps MobilePay
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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SeniorAlf Nilsen is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling mobile products and organizations, currently heading App & Comms for Vipps MobilePay where his teams support over 11 million users. He combines hands-on technical roots as a former backend engineer and mobile tech lead with extensive people leadership—building teams from scratch, managing managers, and aligning product, design and business stakeholders. His background includes leading global component platforms for engagement (messaging, notifications, trust, A/B testing) at Adevinta/Schibsted, rolling out services used across many marketplaces. Alf has a track record of evolving team topologies—moving from centralized app teams to developers embedded in product teams—to increase delivery and ownership. Pragmatic and strategic, he focuses on durable architecture and organizational design that scales both technology and user experience. Based in Oslo, he brings deep domain expertise in payments, trust systems and mobile app ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (10)
android-app9
android-library8
android-apps8
java5
image-capture5
jsonpath5
api4
http4
ecommerce4
android3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
finn-no/capturandro
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Image capture handling in Android made easy
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
androidimage-capture
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