Jørgen Austvik is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating high-scale backend services, currently running a 2M requests/second REST service on Azure at Microsoft. He specializes in databases and testing, combining deep systems knowledge with hands-on expertise in ASP.NET/C#, security, capacity planning and DevOps to keep mission-critical services resilient. A long-time open-source contributor, he has improved notable projects like OpenGrok and extended smart-home integrations in openHAB, showing attention to compatibility, performance and user-facing features. His career spans legacy systems at Sun/Oracle to modern cloud platforms, giving him broad perspective on reliability and evolutionary design. Based in Trondheim, he also brings community leadership experience from roles on technical boards, reflecting a pragmatic balance of engineering craft and collaboration.
Contributions:63 reviews, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jørgen primarily contributed to the openHAB add-ons project by implementing features related to the Nobø hub and Nanoleaf bindings. These changes included adding component types, visualizing the Nanoleaf layout, and creating a new channel for visual state. The user also focused on improving the Nanoleaf binding by supporting Lines shapes and refactoring color retrieval for better performance. The work suggests a focus on extending functionality and improving the user experience for various smart home devices.
OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jørgen contributed to the OpenGrok project by addressing bugs and improving the system's compatibility. They implemented support for detecting GNU CSSC in addition to SCCS within the source code. The user also added a Fortran 90 example file to enhance test coverage and included forgotten files related to the JRCS project. Further contributions included local changes to the JRCS library, demonstrating a focus on improving its functionality.
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Jørgen Austvik - Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft