David Brabrand
CEO And Founder at Aiava
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Brabrand is a pragmatic founder and full-stack engineer based in Oslo with 12+ years of experience building product-focused startups and consultancy engagements. As CEO of Aiava and former CTO of Shineup, he combines concept, interaction design, and hands-on coding to move projects from idea to production without "fluffy powerpoints." His tech stack centers on JavaScript, React/React Native, NoSQL, and Google Cloud, and he mentors teams on architecture and delivery. An active problem-solver, he has contributed Norwegian language support to the well-known Natural Node natural language toolkit—adding tokenization, stemming and normalization tailored to Norwegian. He favors measurable product outcomes and usability, pairing illustration and information architecture skills with data modeling to shape compelling, usable digital products.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloHøgskolen i Buskerud (HiBu)
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
tokenize10
tokenizer10
javascript10
nlp10
stemming10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NaturalNode/natural
May 2014 - May 2014
general natural language facilities for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the `natural` repository by implementing Norwegian language support. Their work included adding stop words, implementing a regular expression-based tokenizer for Norwegian characters, and developing normalization and stemming functionalities tailored for the Norwegian language. Furthermore, the user integrated a Norwegian Porter stemmer, enhancing the natural language processing capabilities of the library.
nlpkebab-casecorenlpfacilitiesnatural-language
kbrabrand/imbo-metadata-search
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:84 pushes, 19 branches in 10 months
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