Kenneth Gulbrandsøy
Sjefsarkitekt at Norwegian Red Cross
Drammen, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Gulbrandsøy is a chief architect with 14 years of experience blending research-grade thinking and hands-on software engineering to design distributed decision-support systems and integrated operations. He leads architecture and HR initiatives at Entur, having progressed from team lead to sjefsarkitekt while maintaining a long-standing role as a Search and Rescue expert with the Norwegian Red Cross. His background in engineering cybernetics and a PhD-level research trajectory informs pragmatic solutions across agile development, system frameworks, and emergency planning. Kenneth is an active full‑stack contributor to notable open-source mapping work (flutter_map), where he implemented dynamic layer updates and migration to sound null-safety—showing his ability to improve cross-platform tooling. He excels at translating complex human-technology-organization interactions into operational software and process improvements. Colleagues describe him as a communicator who bridges research, public sector projects, and product delivery with a steady focus on reliability and usability.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bacholor, Bacholor at Bergen University College (HiB)Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (15)
state-management10
maps10
flutter-game10
common-library10
dart10
mobile-development10
c-library10
flutter-apps10
standard-library10
flutter10
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fleaflet/flutter_map
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
A versatile mapping package for Flutter. Simple and easy to learn, yet completely customizable and configurable, it's the best choice for mapping in your Flutter app.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 41 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on enhancing the Flutter map library. They implemented new features and improvements across multiple layers, including tile, marker, polyline, polygon, and circle layers. Their contributions involved adding rebuild streams to various layer options, which likely enables dynamic updates. Furthermore, they improved the tile provider system and added a new group layer. They also upgraded to sound null-safety.
leafletwidgetdartmapflutter
DISCOOS/sarsys-app
May 2019 - May 2021
SarSys Flutter app
Contributions:37 reviews, 1049 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 1 month
flutterflutter-app
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