Ivan Hjelmeland
Indie App Developer at Above AS
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolIvan Hjelmeland is an indie app developer based in Stockholm with 10 years of experience crafting polished iOS and cross-platform apps driven by strong product design instincts. He founded Aboveapps and has shipped around 30 apps with 230,000+ unique downloads, blending obsessive attention to detail with pragmatic prototyping and modern stacks like Swift and Firebase. His career spans agency leadership and hands-on roles building consumer and enterprise mobile products—from banking and logistics to outdoor and accessibility services—demonstrating versatility across platforms and domains. A former Head of Shortcut Bergen and co-founder of multiple startups, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep spatial/GIS expertise from a master’s in Geographic Information Systems. Unusually for an indie maker, he also consults as an expert for Norway’s research council, signaling recognition beyond product teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters degree in Geographic information systems, Masters degree in Geographic information systems at Gjøvik University College (HiG)
English
Stackoverflow
1,065reputation
347kreached
26answers
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Github Skills (56)
in-app-purchase10
storekit9
tvos9
swiftui9
google-play8
macos8
swift-framework8
watchos8
itunes8
ipa8
ios8
appstore7
swift7
crawler6
uikit6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ivanhjel/MapKitty
Jun 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
ivanhjel/appnorge.io
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Simple sign up page for appnorge.io
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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