Bjorn Pettersen
Sr Web Architect at Norsk Test as
Tromsø, Norway
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Top SchoolBjorn Pettersen is a senior web architect with 13+ years of experience designing and delivering robust web and data-driven systems across Europe and the U.S. He combines deep backend expertise in Python, Django, SQLServer/MySQL and Linux with front-end fluency in JavaScript, HTML/CSS and practical ops experience running Apache stacks. Bjorn’s career spans roles from hands-on C++ and ORM work that generated automated code generators to leading tooling and database-focused teams at Rogue Wave and Fair Isaac, demonstrating a rare blend of low-level performance thinking and high-level architecture. At Norsk Test he continues to shape web architecture while contributing to open-source tooling such as pydeps, where he modernized import-graph analysis and visualization. Outside code he brings eclectic perspectives from psychology and neuro-pharmacology studies, plus disciplined pursuits like a Ju Jitsu black belt and rock climbing, which he credits for problem-solving endurance. Based in Tromsø with an M.S. in Computer Science, he’s known for pragmatic insights and for making complex systems more maintainable and observable.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Oregon
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (30)
python10
dependency-analysis10
open-source10
graph-visualization10
graphviz10
mysql9
python-datetime9
redis9
twitter-bootstrap9
npm9
json9
datetime9
forloop9
django9
windows9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thebjorn/pydeps
May 2014 - Nov 2022
Python Module Dependency graphs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 13 reviews, 228 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bjorn was involved in the development and maintenance of the Python module dependency graph tool, pydeps. Their initial contributions include integrating existing code and creating the initial import graph analysis. The user modernized the code and refactored the code, created a dependency graph visualization with a focus on module and path dependencies. They also worked on refining the cluster functionality of the graph.
directed-acyclic-graphpythondependency-graphspython-modulegraphs
datakortet/dk
Jan 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 release, 135 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
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