Christian Askeland
Software Architect at Autronica Fire and Security AS
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolChristian Askeland is a software architect and engineer with 17 years of experience building cross-platform technical applications, from medical imaging and visualization to embedded systems and industrial measurement. He blends hands-on C++/Python development with architecture and project leadership, shipping complex systems that use Qt, VTK/ITK, OpenCV and modern CI/CD pipelines. His background spans R&D, product engineering and management across startups and research labs, including leading the open-source CustusX surgical navigation platform and recent work on embedded Rust/ThreadX projects. Comfortable across Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows, he pairs numerical/geometrical programming expertise with practical systems integration and GUI design. Notably, he has oscillated between deep technical delivery and R&D management roles, often stepping back into coding to tackle core imaging and calibration challenges. Based in Trondheim, Norway, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to solving real-world imaging and control problems.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (30)
image-processing10
upstream9
vtk9
osgi7
medical7
itk7
medical-imaging7
dicom7
cpp7
xml6
documentation6
api6
parsing6
yaml6
cmake6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SINTEFMedtek/CustusX
Oct 2008 - Nov 2016
Research Platform for Image-Guided Therapy
Contributions:5711 commits, 1 PR, 306 pushes in 8 years 2 months
therapyimage-processingguidedimage-guided-therapyresearch-platform
IGSIO/OpenIGTLinkIF
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 days
3d-slicersliceropenigtlink
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