Jostein Gogstad
Staff Software Engineer at Tapad
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolJostein Gogstad is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of JVM-focused experience, currently building an in-house Big Data platform on Google Cloud at Tapad. He is highly skilled in Scala and functional programming and combines deep platform knowledge—BigQuery, GKE, Airflow—with pragmatic operational expertise in Linux, containers, and databases. His background spans hands-on development, tech leadership and team lead roles, delivering high-availability systems for enterprises like Avinor and long consultancy stints at Steria. A pragmatic generalist, he emphasizes understanding business and operational impact alongside code quality, which informs his approach to distributed data systems. Colleagues rely on him for bridging engineering, ops and management perspectives to ship reliable, scalable data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English
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Github Skills (200)
dataflow10
http-client10
command-line-tool10
modular10
multiple-machines10
spice10
sbt-plugin10
json10
karabiner10
nodejs10
zsh10
php10
administration10
xmlhttprequest10
json-data10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jgogstad/athome
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 4 months
jgogstad/dotfiles
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:89 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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