Jan Øverland
Engineering Manager at DHIS2
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Øverland is an Engineering Manager at DHIS2 with 11 years of experience leading frontend teams and shipping web applications grounded in modern web standards and progressive web app practices. He moved from technical product management into engineering leadership after a long tenure as a team lead and frontend developer at HISP/University of Oslo, bringing deep expertise in JavaScript, React, Redux and build tooling alongside practical familiarity with Java backend stacks. Jan is a hands-on leader who bridges product and engineering, having contributed UX-focused features and chart integrations to the widely used open-source DHIS2 core project. Based in Oslo, he pairs a Master of Science with a pragmatic focus on best practices, developer workflows, and maintainable UI architecture. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate complex health-data product requirements into intuitive dashboard interfaces used across global deployments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, A, Master of Science, A at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Computer Science, Informatics, A, Computer Science, Informatics, A at Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO)
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
dashboard10
spring9
maven8
java7
javas7
hibernate6
fest5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dhis2/dhis2-core
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
DHIS 2 Core. Written in Java. Contains the service layer and Web API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 116 commits, 42 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily worked on the dashboard DV plugin within the DHIS2 core repository, suggesting a focus on frontend development. The commits reveal changes to JavaScript files for the dashboard integration, indicating involvement in implementing and modifying user interface components. Further commits show integration of new chart plugins. The user's work includes changes to the event reports.
apidhishibernatemavenspring-mvc
dhis2/d2-analysis
Nov 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 884 commits, 70 PRs in 6 years 5 months
analyticsanalytics-libraryweb-libreferdhis2
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