Johannes Gorset
Frontansvarlig at VG - Verdens Gang AS
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolJohannes Gorset is a seasoned engineering leader based in Oslo with 15 years of experience building teams and products at the intersection of technology, business, and people. Currently Frontansvarlig at VG and formerly Director of Engineering at Schibsted, he combines product-minded leadership with hands-on engineering to shape front-page experiences and scale organizations. He’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer and open-source enthusiast with notable contributions to widely used projects like requests and practical tools such as Whisper-as-a-Service and Facepy. Johannes has a track record of growing teams (from startups to 45+ engineers), improving developer tooling, and bringing reliability to critical customer-facing systems. He also sits on the board of 2Park Technologies, where he applies AI-driven product thinking to real-world operations, reflecting an uncommon blend of product, ops and technical depth.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Graphic Design, Bachelor's degree Graphic Design at Westerdals Oslo ACT
English, Norwegian, ruby, javascript, python, php, swift, java, Japanese
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Github Skills (40)
facebook-messenger10
python10
apidoc10
redis10
api-design10
messenger10
facebook-messages10
testing10
http10
bots10
authentication10
facebook-graph-api10
flask-ask10
facebook10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jgorset/facepy
Apr 2011 - Apr 2020
Facepy makes it really easy to use Facebook's Graph API with Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits, 19 PRs, 48 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `facepy` library, which simplifies interaction with the Facebook Graph API. Their work involved upgrading dependencies from `httplib2` to `requests`, refactoring exception handling, implementing more robust pagination logic and adding support for features such as appsecret proofs. Furthermore, the user added testing capabilities and addressed several bugs, including those related to pagination, to enhance the library's reliability.
graphpythonfacebookapi-client
schibsted/WAAS
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Whisper as a Service (GUI and API with queuing for OpenAI Whisper)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 28 commits, 19 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the "Whisper as a Service" project, a GUI and API for transcribing audio using OpenAI Whisper. They implemented new features like a worker for the API and added email notifications. They also fixed bugs related to import errors, attribute errors, and whitespace. Additionally, they integrated the Pulse SDK for tracking user engagement and added functionality to save user email preferences and display time-saved statistics.
openai-whisperwhisper
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