Bjørn Borud
Partner & Co-founder at Lab5e AS
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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SeniorBjørn Borud is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building large-scale search, networking and IoT systems, currently co-founding and leading Lab5e in Trondheim. His career spans senior engineering roles at FAST, Yahoo and Google and senior leadership at Telenor where he served as Chief Architect, Chief Scientist and Head of Exploratory Engineering. Bjørn combines hands-on systems and embedded software expertise with product and strategy experience, having moved between deep technical delivery and shaping new business initiatives. He has a long history of building infrastructure—starting companies, contributing to large search platforms, and running exploratory R&D teams—that surfaces in pragmatic, production-ready designs. Outside work he is a maker and photographer, a background that informs his practical, design-minded approach to IoT and hardware-adjacent software.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (197)
programming-language10
interpreter10
morph10
golang10
sensor10
protobuf10
serialization10
go10
protocol-buffers9
stm32cube9
cmsis9
grpc9
compiler9
alien9
protoc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
borud/drydock
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Experiment in unit testing with PostgreSQL using Docker
Contributions:6 releases, 18 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
testingdockerunitpostgresqlunit-testing
borud/paxcli
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
Quick and dirty CLI for Pax counter
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
dirtypaxcountercli
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