Eirik Nygaard
Software Engineer at Vespa.ai
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolEirik Nygaard is a seasoned software engineer with 21 years of experience building backend systems, DevOps tooling, and production-ready infrastructure from Trondheim, Norway. Currently contributing to Vespa.ai, he brings deep experience from Yahoo and leadership roles in R&D and engineering management at Powel and Disruptive Technologies, blending hands-on implementation with team and project leadership. His open-source contributions to the high-profile vespa-engine/vespa project include enhancing the vespa curl command, Auth0 control plane integration, and improving build/test reliability—work that sits at the intersection of AI, data, and online services. Comfortable in distributed systems and cloud environments, he has a track record of tightening validation, automating operations, and shipping robust backend features that support scalable deployments. With an MSc in Computer Science from NTNU, he combines academic rigor with practical, production-focused engineering.
21 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
go10
devops10
api-design9
api9
docker8
automations8
continuous-integration8
automation8
cloud-infrastructure8
dockers8
server8
serve7
windows6
sharepoint6
windows-xp6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 111 reviews, 127 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eirik primarily worked on the `vespa-engine/vespa` repository by implementing features for the `vespa curl` command, including support for different service types, and integrating with Auth0 for control plane access. They also addressed review feedback, fixed bugs, and made improvements to build and test infrastructure by adding an option to make execute fail on error, and making sample-apps downloading atomic. Furthermore, they made strict validation for node counts and also added support for gcp archive access.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
vespa-cloud/terraform-google-enclave
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Terraform modules for Vespa Cloud Enclave (GCP)
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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