Carl Hedgren
Senior Advisor at Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolCarl Hedgren is a seasoned software engineer and senior advisor based in Oslo with 11 years of experience delivering platform and frontend systems across public sector and private industry. He specializes in platform engineering—Kubernetes on-prem and GCP—high-performance anonymization, proxies and reproducible build systems, and has a strong functional-programming background using Elm and Haskell. Carl has driven accessibility (WCAG) and developer productivity improvements repeatedly, from migrating build pipelines to spearheading a NixOS user group meetup in Oslo. His earlier career blends mechanical engineering and engineering tooling—writing mesh utilities and NN predictors—bringing a practical systems mindset to software problems. Known for pragmatic innovation, he built a custom in-house query language and robust code-generation toolchains that scaled search and build workflows. Describing himself as a “computer heretic,” he favors unconventional, principled solutions that emphasize correctness, performance and accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (147)
nix10
nixos10
linux10
nixpkgs10
npm10
typeahead10
javascript9
kubernetes-operator9
yarnpkg9
emacs9
cli9
vim9
unleash9
bootstrap9
package-manager9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
navikt/amplitrude-proxy
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 319 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
nais/nais-nix-action
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 85 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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