Johannes Andersen
Senior Software Engineer at VG - Verdens Gang AS
Fredrikstad, Viken, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJohannes Andersen is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable web applications, currently focusing on Vue, TypeScript, and Node.js at Telenor. He has risen through roles at Signifyd and Schibsted where he led frontend rewrites, incident response, and delivery for customer-facing systems. An active full‑stack contributor, he built Whisper-as-a-Service tooling that handles upload, queuing and multi-format transcription outputs and integrated observability with Sentry. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features and owning production reliability, Johannes combines hands-on coding with a knack for refactoring and process improvements. Based in Fredrikstad, Norway, he brings a developer’s curiosity—self-described simply as a “developer of things”—to practical engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sales, service and tourism, VG I, Sales, service and tourism, VG I at Fredrik II VGSSales and Customer Service, VK II, Sales and Customer Service, VK II at St. Olav VGS
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
web-application10
python10
api-design10
uploader10
restful-api10
flask-ask10
webapp10
file-upload10
file-handling10
rest-api10
web-development10
flask10
javascript9
preact9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
schibsted/WAAS
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Whisper as a Service (GUI and API with queuing for OpenAI Whisper)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 59 commits, 93 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily contributed to the development of a web-based application for transcribing audio using the Whisper model. They implemented core features such as file uploading, user interface elements, and various output formats (VTT, SRT, JSON, TXT). The user also integrated Sentry for error tracking, and refactored the codebase for enhanced maintainability and versioning of the API routes. Additional work included queueing functionality and managing background tasks related to the transcription process.
openai-whisperwhisper
Johannes-Andersen/Johannes
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
The code behind my website
Contributions:13 reviews, 103 PRs, 259 pushes in 3 years
johandnextjs
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