Christer Edvartsen
Senior Software Engineer at NAV
Våler, Viken, Norway
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Top SchoolChrister Edvartsen is a senior software engineer with around 15 years of professional web development experience and a track record of building high-availability PHP/JavaScript applications and CI-driven delivery pipelines. He currently works at NAV and has held senior and tech lead roles at Schibsted/VG, where he combined full-stack development with systems and DevOps responsibilities (Linux, AWS/GCP, Varnish, Jenkins/CircleCI). Christer is an active open-source contributor to notable PHP projects—such as php-imagine and Elastica—where he’s added features, tests and hardening work that improve reliability and interoperability. He took a two-year detour to co-found and run a craft brewery, during which he built an inventory and reporting system that reflects his practical approach to automating real-world operations. Comfortable across backend, frontend and operations, he focuses on performance, security and quality assurance while preferring to contribute to existing projects rather than reinventing the wheel. Outside work he’s a devoted home cook and music fan, with a long-standing interest in climbing and craft beer.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Østfold University College (HiØ)
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Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
tokenize10
query-builder10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
phpunit10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
code-analysis10
tokenizer10
aws-elasticsearch10
image-manipulation10
elasticsearch10
test-automation10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sebastianbergmann/php-token-stream
Dec 2010 - Dec 2012
Wrapper around PHP's tokenizer extension.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Christer primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the `php-token-stream` repository. They added and modified test cases to ensure the accurate parsing and analysis of PHP code tokens, focusing on the `getDocblock` and function argument extraction functionalities. The user's work included creating new test cases for edge scenarios, such as testing closures, and refining existing tests to be more strict and comprehensive. These modifications improved the robustness and reliability of the token stream library.
phptokenizer
php-imagine/Imagine
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
PHP Object Oriented image manipulation library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christer primarily contributed to the image manipulation library by implementing new features such as the "border" and "canvas" filters. They added the necessary code for the filter functionality, including the `Border` and `Canvas` classes, and also wrote corresponding test cases to validate the implementations. Furthermore, the user integrated the new canvas method into the existing transformation chain and implemented it for different image implementations.
manipulationmanipulation-libraryimageimage-manipulationphp
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