Gaute Lindkvist
Lead Software Engineer at Kontur
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolGaute Lindkvist is a Lead Software Engineer and applied mathematician based in Trondheim with nine years of professional experience building high-performance scientific and engineering software, primarily in C++. He combines deep numerical methods expertise—CFD, finite volume and boundary element methods—with practical skills in parallel computing (OpenMP, MPI), cross-platform development and visualization (including OpenGL). A certified Scrum Master and experienced project manager, he has led teams and delivered complex products across industries from defence-focused CFD solvers to commercial scientific tools at Thermo Fisher and Kontur. Gaute’s background spans academia and industry (PhD and MSc in scientific computation) and includes hands-on work on real-world blast-loading and simulation software used by major defense contractors. He’s comfortable across legacy and modern stacks—Fortran, Perl, PHP, Python, Java—and brings an uncommon blend of rigorous analytical thinking and pragmatic engineering to performance-critical systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Scientific Computation, MSc, Scientific Computation at Cranfield UniversityPhD, Applied Mathematics / Scientific Computation, PhD, Applied Mathematics / Scientific Computation at Cranfield University at The Defence AcademyNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (65)
embedded-software10
python10
c1110
octave10
client-server10
rest-api10
introspection10
eclipse10
cpp10
reservoir10
post-processing10
rest10
opengl10
json10
reflection10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lindkvis/ResInsight
Apr 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
post-processingpython3d-viewerreservoirviewer
lindkvis/caffa
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
C++ Application Framework For Embedded Client/Server systems
Contributions:19 releases, 8 reviews, 632 commits in 2 years 10 months
multithreadingclient-servergrpcweb-applicationembedded-software
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