Geir Engdahl
Co-Founder And CTO, AI at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolGeir Engdahl is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building AI-driven industrial software as Cognite’s CTO and earlier product/CTO roles. Grounded in a master’s in applied mathematics and enriched by engineering time at Google, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with hands-on system design to deliver scalable data and ML solutions for safer, more sustainable operations. He has repeatedly shifted between technical and product leadership—founding startups like Snapsale and evolving Cognite’s technical strategy—showing a knack for turning research-grade algorithms into production systems. Based in Oslo, he pairs deep domain focus on industrial data with practical experience shipping at scale, and has supplemented his profile with Mandarin studies, signaling an appetite for cross-cultural collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at University of OsloChinese language (mandarin), Chinese language (mandarin) at Tianjin Normal UniversityValler vgsApplied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
solver9
tsp-solver9
google-maps8
google7
crawler5
prerender5
seo4
java4
closure1
css1
compiler1
javascript1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
geirke/optimap
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:4 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
tsptsp-solvergooglesolvergoogle-maps
geirke/prerender-java
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
javaprerenderframeworkjava-framework
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