Gard Rimestad
Software Engineering Manager at Gjensidige
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolGard Rimestad is a seasoned software engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native delivery platforms from Oslo, Norway. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills—demonstrated by upstream contributions to Spinnaker components (clouddriver, orca, rosco, deck) and Unleash—with leadership roles running developer foundations and platform teams. Gard has led major infra overhauls (AKS, Terraform, monitoring, secret management) and driven CI/CD, artifact and bakery improvements at scale, often pushing fixes upstream to improve reliability. He balances product-focused platform work with full-stack contributions, from UI refinements to robust artifact handling and deployment automation. Known for pragmatic error-handling and observability improvements, he brings an operator’s discipline to engineering leadership. An HBS Online alum in disruptive strategy and a University of Oslo informatics graduate, he blends technical depth with strategic product thinking.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Informatics, Bachelor Informatics at University of OsloDistuptive strategy Business, Distuptive strategy Business at Harvard Business School Online
English
Github Skills (48)
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
groovy10
feature-toggle10
toggle10
testing10
fest10
bash10
travis-ci10
jinjava10
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/igor
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Integration with Jenkins and Git for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 49 commits, 78 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gard focused on integrating Travis CI into the Igor project. They implemented Travis integration, including access token generation, build status retrieval, and log fetching. Furthermore, the user refactored build status endpoints to unify the Jenkins and Travis integrations, ensuring that both build providers could return the same information. The user also implemented functionality to trigger and monitor builds within Travis.
jenkinsjenkins-plugingitflowgocdspinnaker
spinnaker/rosco
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
A bakery for deployable images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gard primarily contributed to the automation of the image build process, adding support for upgrades and managing package installations. They implemented features to support Amazon Machine Image (AMI) builds, including chroot builds and copying AMIs to different regions. Furthermore, the user modified the installation scripts, ensuring services are not started during package installations on Debian-based systems and added sudo to several commands.
bakerydockerdeployable
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