Gjøran Voldengen
Principal Software Engineer at Vespa.ai
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolGjøran Voldengen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Trondheim, Norway, with over 10 years of professional experience and a long career in large-scale search and media systems. He currently contributes to Vespa.ai’s backend configuration and testing efforts, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Java and production-grade system stability—evidenced by careful maintenance commits to the high-profile vespa-engine project. His background includes senior engineering and principal systems roles across Yahoo, Verizon Media, and Fast Search & Transfer, where he focused on reliable, scalable infrastructure for search, content, and advertising platforms. Trained as an engineer and computer scientist (M.Sc. Informatics, University of Oslo), he blends hardware-rooted discipline with large-system software architecture. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and a preference for correctness-first changes that keep complex systems predictable in production. He quietly pairs attention to testing and configuration modeling with long-term stewardship of critical open-source infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Gjøvik University College (HiG)Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics at University of Oslo
Italian, German, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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maven
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
configuration-management10
vespa10
java10
javas10
testing9
netty9
osgi9
maven9
android-studio6
android6
maven-javadoc-plugin6
intellij-idea6
dependency-management6
jvm6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:509 reviews, 489 commits, 1661 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gjøran made several commits that primarily involve reverting changes, indicating a focus on maintaining the stability and correctness of the codebase. These changes involve modifications to Java code, specifically within the `config-model` directory, and test files, suggesting involvement with configuration and testing aspects of the Vespa engine. The commits suggest the user's involvement with the installation of model evaluation, including changes to the underlying code and related test cases.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
gjoranv/osgi-util
Feb 2019 - Jul 2023
Utilities for working with OSGi and bundle jars.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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