Håvard Kindem
Staff Software Engineer at ClickUp
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolHåvard Kindem is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems across startups and large tech companies. He blends deep expertise in Android and mobile SDKs with strong data engineering chops—designing streaming and batch pipelines, personalization features, and large-scale services for millions of users. As a founding engineer at Kitemaker he owned infra, CI/CD and real-time collaborative editing, while at Spotify and Schibsted he focused on localization, recommendation, and real-time targeting. A generalist by background (originating in indie game development), he’s comfortable from low-latency systems and sync engines to cloud platforms like GCP and AWS. Colleagues know him as a practical optimizer and mentor who values team well-being and continuous learning. Beyond code, his early modding and game work shaped a lasting curiosity for AI, distributed systems and performance engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
One year study Economics and Business Administration, One year study Economics and Business Administration at Gjøvik University College (HiG)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Game Programming, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Game Programming at Hedmark University CollegeNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (51)
kotlin9
sdk9
cli8
android8
dokka7
javadoc7
golang7
dao7
api-documentation7
api7
command-line-tool7
html6
jquery-ui6
documentation6
command-line6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bitgfx/mindlessly
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
Nexcius/EloBot
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 8 issues in 5 years 8 months
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