Bjørn Pedersen
Senior Consultant at BEP Consulting
Oslo, Norway
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Bjørn Pedersen is a seasoned senior consultant and full-stack developer with 12+ years of hands-on experience across Java and Go, specializing in high-performance web tooling, identity management, and complex backend systems. He is the creator and longtime maintainer of Hugo, the world’s fastest static site framework, and has migrated and improved major sites and docs for clients like Let's Encrypt, Linode and Google. Comfortable from low-level concurrency fixes to frontend theming, his open-source contributions span tooling (viper, afero), databases (storm/BoltDB), and developer UX improvements, with 3000+ GitHub contributions annually. He pairs deep enterprise experience in payments, authentication and large appservers with consultancy instincts—running his own firm, BEP Consulting—and often acts as technical lead, tester and scrum master. Based in Oslo, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for performance-oriented design and occasionally surprises colleagues as an accomplished saxophonist.
12 years of coding experience
Cand. Mag., Computer Science and Digital Media, Cand. Mag., Computer Science and Digital Media at Gjøvik University College (HiG)
Norwegian, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (66)
hugo10
testing10
bash10
file-operations10
highlighter10
concurrency10
javascript10
data-conversion10
boltdb10
internationalization10
data-serialization10
uid10
localization10
front-end-development10
database-design10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gohugoio/hugoDocs
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
The source for https://gohugo.io/
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:134 releases, 55 reviews, 2086 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bjørn's contributions primarily focused on improving the Hugo documentation website. Their work involved fixing the site structure, refactoring content to utilize the block keyword, adding a 404 template, documenting the output formats feature, adding release notes, and fixing the edit page link. They were also responsible for updating references, adding a simple list template, and enhancing the appearance of the documentation.
gohugohugo-sitehugohugo-docs
spf13/hyde
Aug 2015 - Apr 2021
Port of Mdo's excellent theme to Hugo
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1 review, 7 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bjørn contributed to the Hugo theme by modifying layouts and templates. Their work included renaming variables, fixing conditional statements for Disqus comments, updating head.html, and integrating Google Analytics. They also refactored code to utilize `.Site.RegularPages` and added a go.mod file. The contributions demonstrate a focus on templating, configuration, and integrating external services within the Hugo framework.
hugo
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