Bjørn Svinningen
Senior Engineer at University of Inland Norway
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBjørn Svinningen is a Senior Engineer based in Oslo with over a decade of experience building resilient infrastructure, specializing in Go development, data center networking and security, and automation. He designs and implements monitoring, orchestration and IoT-enabled automation for large-scale datacenter environments and intermittently connected platforms, having built an async fleet management system (ctrl) inspired by telco control systems and resilient networked architectures. Bjørn blends deep hands-on network engineering (Cisco, Checkpoint, F5) with pragmatic software craftsmanship in Go, repeatedly shipping solutions for unreliable networks such as shipboard edge clouds. As a freelancer and consultant he pairs technical depth with strong communication skills honed through formal training, making complex systems accessible to teams and stakeholders. Outside engineering he farms, sketches, and tinkers with electronics and excavators, bringing a practical, maker mindset to software and infrastructure problems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of apprenticeship Electronics EDP Audio/Video, Certificate of apprenticeship Electronics EDP Audio/Video at Askim VideregåendeCheckpoint Firewall, Checkpoint Firewall at MnemonicKommunikasjon, Kommunikasjon at Dale Carnegie, OsloF5 LTM, F5 LTM at F5Certified Itil v3., Certified Itil v3. at Itil v3.CCNP course., CCNP course. at AzlanCheckpoint VSX Course Security, Checkpoint VSX Course Security at Checkpoint
nordic, English
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
messaging10
controller10
control-systems10
golang10
pubsub10
deployment-automation10
async9
infrastructure-management9
linux9
devops9
go9
operating-system9
rust9
remote-execution9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
postmannen/parrot
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:98 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
postmannen/go-learning
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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