Jostein Topland
Senior Software Developer Contractor at Statoil
Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJostein Topland is a senior software developer contractor based in Norway with 11 years of experience building complex, data-heavy visualization and trading tools for the oil and drilling industries. He combines deep C/C++ and OpenGL/Qt expertise with practical backend skills in PL/SQL, JavaScript and enterprise tooling, having delivered production systems at Statoil and National Oilwell Varco. Known for meticulous attention to detail and rapid learning, he thrives on solving demanding real-time visualization and estimation problems. His background spans R&D commercialization, service management and trading systems, reflecting a rare mix of research-driven innovation and hands-on productization. Colleagues describe him as self-driven and optimistic, and he brings a practitioner’s appreciation for elegant, fun-to-write code inspired by classical engineering values.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Høgskolen i Vestfold (HiVe)One-year program, Mathematics, One-year program, Mathematics at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)Lundehaugen videregående skoleMilitary service, Military service at Norwegian Armed Forces
Norwegian, English
Stackoverflow
1,010reputation
467kreached
7answers
12questions
Github Skills (16)
algorithm6
margin6
heatmap6
data-structures6
wpf6
singly-linked-list6
oracle6
oxyplot6
puzzle6
molecule5
atomix4
midi4
jack4
sdl2
mss1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JosteinTopland/atomix.js
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Atomix is a puzzle game. On each level, you are given a couple of atoms, and your task is to arrange them into a specific molecule.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
couplearrangeatomsatomixmolecule
JosteinTopland/lolo3d
Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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