Summary
Karl-erik Rønsen is a seasoned software developer based in Oslo with 17 years of experience building user-focused products, prototypes, and cloud-native backends. He has co-founded and led technical teams at startups and scaleups, notably as CTO at Eliot where he delivered IoT-driven energy-optimization systems on Azure, and earlier co-founding realtime backend and consumer projects. Equally comfortable in frontend UX-driven work (React, TypeScript, MobX) and backend/cloud platforms (Azure Functions, Event Hubs, PostgreSQL, Python, C#), he blends product sensibility with hands-on engineering. Currently he splits time between research, prototyping new ideas under his own name and building the social writing game at WeWillWrite, showing a preference for delightful, playful user experiences. A former jazz bass student, he brings an improvisational mindset to problem solving and a long track record of turning early concepts into production-ready systems.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Digital Media, Bachelor Digital Media at University of Oslo
Jazz performance Bass, Jazz performance Bass at Norwegian Academy of Music