Kim Gaarder
Hired Software Consultant at eXOReaction
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Gaarder is a seasoned software consultant and solutions architect based in Oslo with 10 years of hands-on experience designing high-performance, secure cloud and distributed systems. With an MS in Computer Science from Washington State University and a strong Java background, Kim has led architecture and development efforts across public sector and enterprise clients, including Oslo Public Library, Entra ASA, and Statistics Norway. He blends deep systems thinking—performance tuning, operations automation, and security—with practical delivery, having moved from principal engineering at Tomra to consulting roles that bridge strategy and implementation. Known for taking ownership of complex integrations and e-commerce platform builds, Kim excels at translating business constraints into scalable technical designs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that minimize operational burden while maximizing reliability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Høgskoleingeniør, Høgskoleingeniør at University of South-Eastern NorwayMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Washington State University
Github Skills (171)
messaging10
user-roles10
queuing10
wake-on-lan10
streaming10
event-streaming10
apache-pulsar10
messaging-system10
pulsar10
apache10
pubsub10
ics-security10
lds9
aggregates9
session-manager9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
statisticsnorway/distributed-saga
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Implementation of the distributed-saga pattern consisting of separate java libraries for api, execution, and serialization
Contributions:38 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
apisagaseparateserializationjava
statisticsnorway/dapla-project
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Aggregates dapla sources into a common development context.
Contributions:2 reviews, 197 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
aggregatesdaplasources
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