Benedicte Brækken
Founder, CEO And Principal Consultant at Kodeklang
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedicte Brækken is a founder and principal consultant with 11 years’ experience building full‑stack web applications and resilient infrastructure, currently leading Kodeklang from Oslo. She combines hands‑on development—spanning React front ends, Python back ends, and cloud/ops automation—with team leadership and mentoring across product and platform teams. At FINN.no she led payment platform engineering and at Sanity contributed UI fixes to the popular Sanity Studio, reflecting a comfort moving between UX polish and backend reliability. Her background as CTO and infrastructure engineer includes running production services with Prometheus/Grafana, PostgreSQL clusters, and CI/CD automation. Passionate about automation and metrics, she favors pragmatic observability and repeatable deployments that reduce toil. Trained in astrophysics, she brings a data‑minded problem‑solving approach and a habit of turning complex systems into maintainable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Astrophysics, Bachelor's Degree Astrophysics at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
ui-design10
react10
form-builder9
css9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
headless-cms7
headlessui7
headless-browser7
cms6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 65 reviews, 92 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Benedicte primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the user experience within the Sanity Studio. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to the display of presence indicators, adding margins and z-index for better visual layout of components, and refining connector lines. They also worked on improving the functionality of the array and boolean inputs and ensuring correct behavior of the select and radio inputs.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
benedicteb/mktimer
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Utility for timing activities
Contributions:6 PRs, 49 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 7 months
activities
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