Gunnar Fornes
Senior Platform Architect
Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Fornes is a Senior Platform Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, polyglot systems for startups and scale-ups, currently leading platform architecture at Vic.ai. He blends backend expertise in Ruby, Python, Elixir and Node with frontend and UX sensibilities, having shipped products across Rails, Phoenix, Django and React ecosystems. Gunnar has a track record as a tech lead and co-founder, moving between system architecture, platform reliability and pragmatic feature delivery. He favors cloud-native tooling and CI/CD (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, CircleCI) and is an avid user of developer services like GitHub, Heroku and New Relic to accelerate shipping. Outside work he studies Erlang and Prolog and sharpens problem-solving with competitive programming, reflecting a deep interest in concurrent systems and language theory. Based in Trøndelag, Norway, he combines design-minded product instincts with the discipline to turn complex requirements into maintainable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Science, Computing Science at Simon Fraser UniversityNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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10kreached
6answers
13questions
Github Skills (82)
sdk8
shiny8
code-analysis8
linter8
css8
woff8
google-fonts8
elixir8
font-awesome8
fonts8
javascript-client7
logos7
branding7
svg7
iconic7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kindly-ai/kindly-starterkit-js
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
A webhook & app integration starter kit for the Kindly platform
Contributions:53 commits, 1 push in 5 days
javascriptwebhookswebhook
gunnar2k/holidays-norway
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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