Ivar Østhus
Chief Technology & Product Officer at Unleash
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolIvar Østhus is a seasoned technology and product leader with 16 years of experience crafting elegant, lightweight solutions for complex problems, currently serving as Chief Technology & Product Officer at Unleash in Oslo. He combines hands-on front-end craftsmanship—demonstrated through notable UI contributions to the popular open-source feature-management platform Unleash—with strategic architecture and product leadership from senior roles at FINN.no. Comfortable spanning full-stack concerns, Ivar has a track record of improving developer workflows, authentication flows and component design while guiding cross-functional teams. His background in networked services (M.Tech from NTNU) and early work on embedded C/C++ gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that informs product decisions. Colleagues know him for translating complexity into simple, usable interfaces and for bringing both technical depth and product intuition to high-impact projects.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
jsx10
ui-components10
html9
css9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Unleash/unleash
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Open-source feature management platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 917 reviews, 3395 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ivar primarily contributed to the user interface components and form elements within the Unleash platform. They fixed Javascript and JSXhint errors, enhanced features, updated component styles, and improved the layout and general UI appearance. They also made updates to the UI to accommodate changes to the authentication flow.
collaborationabtestingcapistranoproductioncontinuous-deployment
smidig/smidig-conference
Jun 2010 - Oct 2014
Contributions:215 commits in 4 years 5 months
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