Espen Kristiansen
Software Developer at Appresso AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEspen Kristiansen is a seasoned software developer and entrepreneur with 16+ years building web systems, frameworks, and production-ready solutions since 1999. He holds a Master’s in Informatics from the University of Oslo and combines deep hands-on expertise in Python/Django, modern JavaScript (ES6/React), and performance optimization with practical cloud experience on AWS and Heroku. As co-owner of Appresso AS and founder of multiple small companies, he blends consulting, technical advising, and product development for community-focused web and mobile projects. He has substantial teaching and lecturing experience—ever comfortable explaining complex topics to audiences from 5 to 500—and has led academic open-source projects like Devilry into broader production use. Notably, his background spans both game engines (Unreal, Unity3D) and low-level compute (CUDA/OpenCL), reflecting a rare combination of web, graphics, and performance profiling skills.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Informatics, Master, Informatics at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)
Github Skills (24)
trix10
xadmin10
django-admin10
admin9
django9
python8
statistics7
react6
filtering5
java4
object-oriented-programming4
pinax3
css3
kss2
css-selectors2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
devilry/devilry-django
Jan 2010 - Dec 2022
Devilry project main repository
Contributions:10932 commits, 5 PRs, 1332 pushes in 13 years
main-project
reachenbee/pinax-oldversion-backup
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
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