Hans Flaatten
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolHans Flaatten is an experienced SRE and platform engineering leader with 14+ years building and operating large cloud-native Kubernetes platforms across government, telecom, banking, retail, and insurance. He currently helps run NAIS at NAV, one of Norway’s largest application platforms hosting 1,600 apps for 250 product teams, and has led platform initiatives at Telenor, Bulder Bank and TietoEVRY. A long-time open source and cloud-native advocate, Hans has contributed to Node.js infrastructure and the popular Leaflet.draw project, and helped maintain the official Node.js Docker image with millions of downloads. He blends hands-on engineering, team coaching and organizational change—creating DevOps/SRE training programs and shaping platform culture. Active in community building, he co-organizes Cloud Native Bergen, podcasts on platform topics, and serves as a CNCF Ambassador and Google Developer Expert. Outside work he frames himself as a “Platform maker, dream awaker” and brings that practical curiosity to improving developer experience in large public-sector systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (18)
debug10
javascript10
leaflet10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
vector-graphics9
docker9
nginx6
vagrant6
nodejs6
dockerfile6
gunicorn6
django6
git6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet.draw
Dec 2012 - May 2013
Vector drawing and editing plugin for Leaflet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily contributed to the `leaflet.draw` repository by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the drawing and editing of vector elements. Their work involved modifying JavaScript code, specifically within the `Draw.Polyline.js`, `Draw.Marker.js`, `Draw.Polygon.js`, `Draw.Rectangle.js`, `Draw.Circle.js`, and `Draw.SimpleShape.js` files, to address issues like guide line behavior during zooming and marker placement. They also refactored localization strings and integrated new features like the mouse marker for the marker tool.
leafleteditingvectordrawing
nais/examples
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
A collection of example apps demonstrating features and concepts in and around NAIS.
Contributions:1 review, 42 PRs, 144 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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