Kjell-magne Øierud
Fagansvarlig at Skalar
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKjell-magne Øierud is a seasoned software professional with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Fagansvarlig at Skalar in Oslo. He progressed from developer to tech lead and now into a technical leadership role, blending hands-on engineering with responsibility for quality and practice across teams. Deeply experienced in backend systems and configuration management, he made notable open-source contributions to the well-known Munin monitoring project—refactoring configuration parsing, modularizing logic, and adding plugin configuration and testing. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and security, such as better handling of user/group permissions and addressing static analysis concerns. He holds a Master’s in Informatics from the University of Oslo and thrives on turning legacy complexity into robust, testable solutions. An unexpected throughline in his career is a passion for craftsmanship: he prefers elegant, well-documented internals as much as visible features.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Informatics, Master, Informatics at University of Oslo
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Github Skills (11)
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
perl10
drupal-module10
package-development10
test-framework9
monitoring9
simpletest7
tikz6
latex6
pgf6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
munin-monitoring/munin
Mar 2009 - Apr 2009
Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:214 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kjell-magne made significant contributions to the Munin node's configuration management. They refactored and modularized configuration parsing, moving configuration-related logic to dedicated modules and introducing a plugin configuration system. The user implemented features like wildcard support for configuration and improved the handling of user and group permissions. Additionally, they focused on code quality by addressing Perl::Critic issues and adding testing frameworks to ensure code correctness.
mastermuninnodejsperlmonitoring
kjellm/munin-mysql
Feb 2009 - May 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 17 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 years 4 months
muningraphsmysqlimproved
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