Are Almaas
IT Consultant - DigDir at Are Almaas AS
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolAre Almaas is an experienced IT consultant and entrepreneur based in Oslo with 12 years of hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and full-stack product development. He co-founded multiple startups including an EdTech company that built chat-based learning tools, and has repeatedly taken products from prototype to production using event-sourcing/CQRS, Kubernetes, and modern SaaS stacks. Are blends pragmatic engineering (Node.js, TypeScript, React/React Native) with infrastructure-first thinking (Terraform, AKS, ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana) to streamline CI/CD and observability across teams. He frequently serves as a technical lead and advisor for organisations modernising legacy systems or launching real-time, distributed platforms. Beyond coding and architecture he brings product sensibility from fundraising, user testing and scaling teams, making him comfortable switching between boardroom strategy and debugging pipelines. A useful but less obvious strength is his track record of mirroring complex cloud environments for local development, reducing friction for cross-disciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer engineering, Bachelor Computer engineering at Oslo and Akershus University CollegeElektronikk, Elektronikk at Brundalen vgs.Microsoft Certified Professional .NET, Microsoft Certified Professional .NET at Microsoft UniversityEPiServer CMS 7 MVC Certification, EPiServer CMS 7 MVC Certification at EPiServer CMS 7 MVC CertificationComputer Science, Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific UniversityMaster's Degree Innovation and Enterpreneurship, Master's Degree Innovation and Enterpreneurship at University of OsloPreporatory course General Studies, Preporatory course General Studies at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)
English
Stackoverflow
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178kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (200)
bots10
dialog10
chat10
conversational-ui10
api10
mongodb10
dialogue-systems10
graphql-client10
graphql10
visual-studio-code-extension10
chatbot10
bot-framework10
watson10
caching10
apollo-client10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
EdtechFoundry/edtech-seed-project-fe
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 PRs, 122 pushes, 33 branches in 2 months
seedseed-project
EdtechFoundry/loopback-testing
Jun 2015 - Jul 2024
Utilities for testing LoopBack apps
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 9 branches in 9 years 2 months
testingtypescriptloopback
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