Eirik Eikås is a Senior Technical Project Manager based in Oslo with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams at digital agencies and creative production houses. Currently heading IT Operations at TRY Reklame and serving as Technical PM at TRY Dig, he blends product leadership with hands-on engineering and infrastructure know-how. His background spans full-stack development, festival-scale event production and lighting design, giving him a rare mix of creative production instincts and pragmatic technical delivery. An active maintainer on open-source tooling, he refactored database backends for the nexrender render-automation project to introduce Redis support and modular providers, demonstrating an ability to improve reliability and scale in media workflows. He holds an Executive Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne and a bachelor’s in Experience & Event Design, which informs his focus on user-centric, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Experience & Event Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Experience & Event Design at Westerdals Oslo ACT
Mediamanagement, Mediamanagement at Gjøvik University College (HiG)
The University of Melbourne
General University Admission Certification, Communication and Media Studies, General University Admission Certification, Communication and Media Studies at Akademiet VGS Sandnes
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Eirik's contributions primarily focused on refactoring the database implementation within the `nexrender-server` project. They introduced a new database provider, `redis`, and migrated from a disk-based solution, splitting the database logic into modular components. The user finalized the Redis implementation, including methods for insert, fetch, update, remove, and cleanup. The commits also involved updates to the API routes to integrate with the new database provider, optimizing database operations.
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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