Ivar Nesje
Full Stack Engineer at Norwegian Digitalisation Agency
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolIvar Nesje is a Full Stack Engineer with 15 years of experience building web applications and integrations, currently contributing to Norway’s Altinn platform at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency. He brings a strong .NET and React background from consulting roles at Bouvet and prior full-stack work with MSSQL, Web API, KnockoutJS and React. Ivar also contributes to prominent open-source projects like the Julia language, where he’s fixed bugs, improved performance and clarified documentation—demonstrating attention to both correctness and developer experience. With a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from NTNU, he combines analytical rigor with practical engineering, often working on integrations and Atlassian add-ons earlier in his career. Colleagues would describe him as a dependable problem-solver who moves fluidly between backend optimizations and front-end concerns. He balances production delivery for public-sector systems with a habit of making small but impactful open-source improvements.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering at NTNUGenerell Studiekompetanse med fordypning i realfag, Generell Studiekompetanse med fordypning i realfag at Kristelig Gymnasium
Norwegian, English, German
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Github Skills (14)
programming-language10
language-design10
julia10
documentation10
randomization9
fortran9
ranges9
error-handling8
git6
eclipse6
compilation6
python6
optimization6
r6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaLang/julia
Sep 2013 - May 2016
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:
Backend & Documentation Engineer
Backend & Documentation EngineerContributions:199 commits, 42 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ivar primarily focused on improving the Julia programming language by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements. Their contributions included fixing issues related to reverse functions for floating-point numbers and ranges, and providing informative error messages for common user errors, specifically row vector vs. column vector confusion. Furthermore, the user updated documentation, fixed formatting issues, and made various code improvements, including performance enhancements in the sum and rand functions.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
ivarne/app-lib-dotnet
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Libraries used in Altinn Apps
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 96 pushes in 2 years 3 months
altinn
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