Kjell Irgens
Principal Software Engineer at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS
Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
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SeniorKjell Irgens is a Principal Software Engineer based in Tromsø, Norway, with over three decades of C/C++ experience and 11 years in his current professional timeline focusing on Linux/Unix systems. He combines deep low-level expertise (C, Modern C++, C) with scripting and web-capable languages (Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, C#) to deliver efficient networked and GUI applications. His strengths include concurrent programming, communication-efficient protocols, and practical use of build and packaging systems like CMake and Autotools. He brings experience in MapReduce analytics and SQL-backed systems, applying unified process and agile practices to complex engineering problems. Known for pragmatic tool-building and reliability-driven design, he operates comfortably across embedded, desktop, and server domains.
11 years of coding experience
English, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (35)
asciidoctor10
asciidoc10
converting10
converter10
manpage10
prawn10
pdf10
ruby10
docbook10
html10
pdf-generation10
asciidoctor-pdf10
wkhtmltopdf10
toolchain9
curl8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Hextremist/asciidoctor-pdf
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
:page_facing_up: Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF renderer for AsciiDoc based on Asciidoctor and Prawn, written entirely in Ruby.
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
pdfasciidoctorwkhtmltopdfprawnruby
Hextremist/asciidoctor
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023
:gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
publishingdocbookmarkup-languageasciidoctorhtml-5
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