Summary
Kjetil Mjøs is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with a decade of experience bridging industrial control systems and modern IT, now leading Gapit Nordics. He began in Oil & Gas designing hardware and control software for turbine and compressor projects, then transitioned into IIoT and software product leadership using open source tools like Grafana, InfluxDB, Node.js and Python. His hands-on background in HW design, field commissioning and industrial protocols gives him rare credibility when aligning operational technology with cloud-native APIs. As a former CEO and Director of Software, he combines strategic product vision with day-to-day engineering rigor. Based in Vestby, Norway, he holds an MSc in Systems Engineering and brings a practical Linux and cybernetics foundation to his work. He’s passionate about open source and translating complex automation requirements into maintainable, observable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Practical Linux, Practical Linux at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cybernetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cybernetics at Buskerud University College (HiBu)
Master of Science (MSc), Systems engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Systems engineering at Høgskolen i Buskerud og Vestfold (HBV)
Queensland University of Technology
Norwegian, English