Birger Nordølum
Senior Platform Engineer
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBirger Nordølum is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Oslo with 15 years of experience delivering reliable, open-source-driven infrastructure and automation for enterprise environments. He combines strong consulting chops with hands-on skills in GitLab, Terraform, macOS tooling, and package automation, having worked extensively on managed services and platform projects. An active OSS contributor, Birger has helped improve widely used projects like Renovate (dependency automation) and fish-shell completions, and maintains numerous Homebrew casks and netboot configurations that reflect a pragmatic focus on developer tooling and reproducible installs. Colleagues rely on him for careful package/version housekeeping—migrating container images, adding dependency presets, and refining installer menus—tasks that often prevent outages rather than attract headlines. He holds a BE in Computer Science from NTNU and blends consultancy experience with deep maintenance work, favoring durable, automatable solutions over one-off fixes. Outside of work he describes his coding style as “coding with a straight face,” hinting at a dry, no-nonsense approach to engineering.
15 years of coding experience
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (56)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
javascript10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
linux10
terminal-emulator10
code-completion10
software-update10
homebrew-cask10
terminal-application10
bash10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-drivers
May 2017 - Aug 2021
💀 Casks of Drivers (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:57 commits, 55 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Birger primarily focused on updating driver-related cask files. Their contributions centered on updating existing software versions within the `homebrew-cask-drivers` repository. They updated drivers for various peripherals like SteelSeries, Razer, and Ubiquiti products, demonstrating a focus on maintaining software packages. Further contributions included adding and modifying `zap` configurations for uninstalling drivers, improving the cleanup process.
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renovatebot/renovate
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 10 PRs, 31 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Birger's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying presets within the Renovate configuration. These changes focus on integrating and adjusting dependency management for various projects, including those related to DataTables, GitLab pipelines, and Docker images from quay.io to ghcr.io. Their work also includes adding support for new dependencies like JNA, Log4j2, Kroki, and OpenCost, showcasing an understanding of different package ecosystems. They also addressed issues by refactoring and modifying existing preset configurations.
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