Summary
Karl Løland is a seasoned software leader and general manager with nearly two decades of development experience and over a decade in senior consulting and leadership roles. He combines hands-on technical expertise—especially in Microsoft Azure, cloud architecture, microservices and native development—with operational leadership running Folia AS and co-founding Talktracer. His background spans mission-critical backend systems (including offshore safety systems), SaaS CRM modernization, and BI/data pipelines, demonstrating an ability to take projects from low-level implementation to production at scale. An active contributor to the Norwegian Java community as a multi-term javaBin board member, he pairs community stewardship with commercial delivery for clients like AkerBP and Norgesgruppen. Trained in AI (MSc from NTNU) and project management, he brings both technical depth and structured delivery practices to product and platform development. Colleagues describe him as the engineer-manager who still finds time to code between business priorities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Agder (UiA)
Reguleringssytemer og Borekunnskap, Reguleringssytemer og Borekunnskap at Stavanger Offshore Tekniske Skole
Norwegian University of Science and Technology