Bjarne Magnussen
Team Leader - Structures And Design at DeepOcean
Greater Stavanger Region Norway
Summary
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RockstarBjarne Magnussen is a pragmatic engineering leader with 8 years of experience who currently leads Structures and Design teams at DeepOcean in the Greater Stavanger region. He progressed through hands-on roles from CNC operator to production manager and senior project engineer, bringing a blend of shop-floor pragmatism and offshore engineering delivery. Technically fluent in back-end and DevOps concerns, he contributes to notable open-source Bitcoin projects—improving Docker deployments and daemon startup scripts for the Lightning Network and hardening transaction handling and signature validation in Bitcoin libraries. As a people leader he combines operational rigor with practical tooling improvements that reduce deployment friction and operational risk. Colleagues rely on him for clear, executable plans that bridge engineering, production, and software automation. Outside work he signals a deep interest in permissionless systems, evidenced by his Bitcoin-focused open-source contributions and pithy GitHub bio.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
105reputation
453reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (21)
lightning10
transaction10
transactional10
docker10
lib10
python10
lightning-network10
testing10
bitcoin10
bash10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrencies10
dockers10
go10
segwit9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ofek/bit
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
Bitcoin made easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 97 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bjarne primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Bitcoin library, fixing bugs related to string comparisons and signature validation. They updated the library's dependencies and added features for handling P2SH and Bech32 outputs. They also refactored transaction-related code for improved readability and added tests.
paymentspythoncryptocurrencybitcoincryptocurrencies
lightningnetwork/lnd
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 30 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bjarne primarily contributed to improving the Docker configuration and scripts within the repository, focusing on the deployment and execution of the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) and associated tools like `ltcctl`. They fixed port configurations for `ltcd` and made improvements to startup scripts (`start-ltcd.sh` and `start-ltcctl.sh`) for Bitcoin and Litecoin. Additionally, the user made minor code improvements, including typo fixes in the `lnwire` package and implemented test cases within the `chanfunding` package.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
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