Jon Venstad
Founding Engineer at HORNET.dev
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Venstad is a founding engineer and seasoned backend-focused software professional with a decade of experience building reliable, scalable systems from research-grade GPU-accelerated simulations to production infrastructure. With a PhD in Computational Physics from NTNU and a Master's in Applied Mathematics, he brings deep numerical and systems thinking to distributed service design and deployment. He served as Principal Software Engineer at Vespa.ai and previously spent seven years at Yahoo, contributing to large-scale, mission-critical systems and specializing in deployment validation and robust error handling. Jon is an active contributor to the Vespa open-source project, where he implemented controller-level zone endpoint configuration and rigorous validation logic that improved deployment integrity. Now based in Trondheim and co-founding HORNET.dev, he combines academic rigor with startup agility to turn complex, data-intensive problems into maintainable production code. An enthusiast by Github bio, he quietly bridges high-performance computing and cloud-native backend engineering in ways that accelerate reliable AI+Data delivery.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Master of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of OsloNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
javas10
back-end-development10
vespa10
java10
testing10
system-testing9
deploying9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1797 reviews, 5321 commits, 3678 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions focused on implementing and validating changes to the controller, specifically around zone endpoint configuration. They modified Java code within the `controller-server` project to add and test functionalities related to zone endpoint changes, demonstrating expertise in backend development and system testing within the Vespa ecosystem. Their work involved manipulating deployment specifications, validating configuration changes and implementing robust error handling to ensure deployment integrity.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
jonmv/zookeeper
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Apache ZooKeeper
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 2 years
accumulozookeeperdatabase-accessconnectorapache-zookeeper
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