Eirik Bjørsnøs
Chief Executive Officer at Polarnight
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolEirik Bjørsnøs is a seasoned technology executive and engineer with 19 years of experience, currently serving as CEO of Polarnight after a long tenure as Chief Scientist at Kantega. He combines strategic leadership and hands-on systems expertise rooted in an MSc in Computer Science from NTNU and a history of founding engineering-focused startups like SVNSearch. Deeply practical, he has contributed performance and correctness improvements to the OpenJDK mainline—optimizing java.util.zip and jar URL handling—which speaks to his ability to tune low-level, production-critical systems. Known for bridging research-grade thinking with product delivery, he thrives on turning complex technical challenges into robust, maintainable solutions. Based in Trondheim, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and proven technical stewardship to scaling engineering organizations.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (6)
openjdk10
javas10
jvm10
performance-optimization10
java10
api-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openjdk/jdk
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:303 reviews, 30 commits, 117 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Eirik primarily contributed to the optimization and improvement of the JDK codebase, with a focus on enhancing the `java.util.zip` and `sun.net.www.protocol.jar` packages. Their commits addressed performance bottlenecks in methods like `ZipFile.getEntry` and optimized the handling of URLs within jar files. Furthermore, the user contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within other Java standard library components, such as `java.lang.String`.
openjdkjavajvmjdk
kantega/revoc
Apr 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:87 commits in 2 years 6 months
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