Andreas Eriksen
Principal Software Engineer at Vespa.ai
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolAndreas Eriksen is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems and cloud infrastructure, currently helping run and evolve Vespa.ai’s cloud platform. He brings deep Java and DevOps experience from long tenures at Yahoo/Oath and Vespa, focusing on scalable, production-grade services, certificate and deployment automation, and operational reliability. Based in Trondheim, he combines hands-on coding with systems thinking—regularly touching controller-server logic, testing, and cloud integrations such as GCP certificate handling. A lifelong tinkerer who still reads computer manuals for fun, he pairs academic grounding from NTNU with a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norwegian, English, German, Latin, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
vespa10
google-cloud-platform8
gcp8
thread-pool6
threadpoolexecutor6
multithreading6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 reviews, 75 commits, 490 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including reverting changes related to model names and endpoint certificates. They made modifications to Java code in the `controller-server` component. The commits also involved changes to test files and updates related to certificate retrieval and management. The user also added code to support copying endpoint certificates to GCP, and implemented code to log information during deployment.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
andreer/PotatoP
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:78 commits, 1 push in 18 days
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