Jan Fonås
Senior Platform Engineer
Innlandet, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Fonås is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient systems for the gambling and casinos sector at Norsk Tipping. He specializes in Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi), OpenShift, and middleware like WebSphere and Liberty, pairing deep operational know-how with infrastructure tooling in Go and Python. Jan’s background spans networking and virtualization (F5 BigIP, VMware ESX) through to messaging (WebSphere MQ), making him adept at bridging legacy enterprise stacks and cloud-native platforms. Based in Innlandet, Norway, he brings a pragmatic systems-architect mindset honed over decades at the same organisation, which gives him rare institutional knowledge of large-scale production environments.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hedmark University College (HH)
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (97)
vsphere10
kvm10
python10
command-line-interface10
powerdns10
infrastructure10
dns10
tesla10
nix-flake10
virtualization10
libvirt10
java10
iaas10
virtual-machine10
vmware10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jannyg/teslalinker
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Linker til Norske strømmetjenester
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
strlinkertilx-plane
jannyg/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - May 2026
.files, including ~/.osx — sensible hacker defaults for OS X
Contributions:2 PRs, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 4 months
sensiblewindowsosxkarabinerlinux
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