Summary
Christopher Ottesen is a London-based project manager and data practitioner with 11 years of experience building data platforms and applied ML solutions across energy trading and upstream oil & gas. He currently leads Petroineos’s digitalisation and global data & AI platform efforts, having progressed internally from hands-on Data Engineer to Lead Data Engineer and now Project Manager overseeing data governance, risk-supporting applications, and cross-regional enablement. As founder of DataEspresso he blends consultancy and technical authorship—publishing tutorials that reach a sizable audience—while maintaining strong PySpark/Python and real-time data expertise. His background spans founding product-focused startups, leading small engineering teams, and delivering production computer-vision and trading-data systems, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit and large-enterprise delivery experience. Notably, he combines strategic leadership with recurring hands-on contributions to engineering and governance, keeping technical credibility while steering business-facing programmes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General studies, General studies at St.Olav High school
Bachelor’s Degree e-Business / Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree e-Business / Information Systems at Norwegian college of information technology (NITH)
Master’s Degree Big Data Science, Master’s Degree Big Data Science at Queen Mary University of London
Norwegian, English