Erik Bakstad
CEO & Co-founder at Birdsview AS
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErik Bakstad is a seasoned software leader and founder with 15 years of experience building developer-driven SaaS and enterprise architecture platforms. As CEO and co-founder of Ardoq, he has evolved from hands-on developer and CTO into a product- and strategy-focused CEO, guiding an Enterprise Intelligence Graph used across finance, utilities, telco and public sectors. He combines deep technical chops—early career work in Java, Spring, Hibernate and automated testing—with a strong product sensibility and governance-first approach to digital transformation. Erik stays grounded in engineering practices, demonstrated by contributions to test automation in open-source tooling, and he serves on boards while running a growth-stage company from New York.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information and Communication Technology, Masters Information and Communication Technology at University of Bergen (UiB)
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
cucumber10
test-automation10
testing10
bdd9
ruby9
jasmine8
unit-testing6
matlab6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
searls/jasmine-maven-plugin
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Maven plugin to execute Jasmine Specs. Creates your HTML runners for you, runs headlessly, outputs JUnit XML
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:Erik contributed significantly to testing within the repository. They implemented Cucumber steps to test the jasmine:bdd goal and added browser-based tests to the require.js feature, suggesting a focus on end-to-end testing. Code changes include the addition and modification of test scenarios, setup of browser interactions and support for managing test processes. The user also added hooks for proper resource cleanup, ensuring tests were isolated.
maven-pluginmavenoutputsxmlrunners
ardoq/analytics-clj
Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
idiomaticapijava-iojava-apisegment
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