Jens Torgersen
Retired at Home
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Torgersen is a seasoned software architect and consultant with four decades of computer science experience, recently retired and based in Trondheim, Norway. He has deep expertise in service-oriented architecture, federated identity management, and secure eID/OpenID Connect solutions, having led architecture and development for BankID Norway and major Norwegian banks. As co-owner and chief consultant at Kantega he combined hands-on Java and .NET development with technical leadership, mentoring, presales and GDPR/security lecturing across finance and government projects. His career stretches from early computer graphics research to large-scale banking integrations, reflecting an unusual blend of low-level systems knowledge and enterprise security architecture. Even in retirement he remains connected to identity and e-signing ecosystems, bringing pragmatic experience in migrating legacy systems to modern, standards-based authentication.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
IT Engineer, IT Engineer at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)Strindheim folkeskoleStrinda gymnas
Norwegian, English, German
Github Skills (13)
authentication10
authorization9
identity9
security9
saml9
openid-connect9
keycloak9
authenticate8
access-management8
identity-management8
bankid6
mvc4
asp-net-core4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
vippsas/bankid-oidc-example-aspnetcore2
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
Shows how to authenticate a user with BankID OIDC service. New version on AspNet Core 2.0 MVC in C#
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
oidcaspnetbankidoauth2aspnet-core
vippsas/bankid-oidc-poc-net-deprecated
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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