Audun Ytterdal
Chief Technology Officer at Varnish Software
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolAudun Ytterdal is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Varnish with 22 years of experience designing, operating, and securing large-scale, high-performance web platforms. He combines deep SRE and engineering management expertise—spanning Kubernetes, Varnish, NetApp clusters, load balancers, observability stacks, and multi-cloud migrations—with hands-on automation skills in Terraform, Chef, and container ecosystems. Previously he led publishing operations for Schibsted’s major Scandinavian news brands and ran IT operations for Norway’s largest news site, delivering resilient dual-site architectures under real-world traffic pressure. An early open-source author (original author of Munin) and active contributor on GitHub, he also built backend and DevOps features for projects like Whisper as a Service, reflecting a pragmatic blend of infrastructure and application work. Based in Oslo, he pairs operational rigor with a background in computer forensics and IT security, making him equally focused on performance, reliability, and risk-aware engineering.
22 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at University of OsloMaster, IT Security, Master, IT Security at Queensland University of Technology
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (12)
whisper10
sentry10
environment-variables10
python10
flask-ask10
flask10
apidoc9
redis9
api9
devops8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
schibsted/WAAS
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Whisper as a Service (GUI and API with queuing for OpenAI Whisper)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 16 commits, 14 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Audun contributed to the backend logic and infrastructure of the Whisper as a Service project. They added an RQ worker for asynchronous tasks, integrated Sentry for error monitoring, and implemented user tracking with Sentry. Additionally, the user made changes to environment variables and updated dependencies. They also added support for sending emails and performed minor fixes.
openai-whisperwhisper
auduny/vscode-vcl
Mar 2022 - Jan 2026
Visual Studio Code Extention to handle Varnish VCL and VTC files
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 4 PRs in 3 years 10 months
varnishvclvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extension
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