Kjetil Valen
Engineering Manager at Finago Group
Norway
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKjetil Valen is an experienced engineering leader with a decade of hands-on software development and team leadership, currently building and managing Finago Group’s new development department in Kuala Lumpur. He progressed from principal developer to tech lead and now engineering manager, bringing deep product-area knowledge of Finago Office through company mergers and scale-up phases. Known for combining pragmatic architecture decisions with people-first management, he excels at starting teams and processes from scratch in international, distributed contexts. Based in Norway, he pairs a formal CS background with practical delivery experience across SaaS accounting and office software. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical stewardship during organizational change and for turning legacy codebases into reliable, maintainable platforms. His career shows a rare continuity of domain expertise coupled with repeated promotion into strategic leadership roles.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's in Computer Science Software Development, Bachelor's in Computer Science Software Development at University of South-Eastern Norway
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (40)
cve8
vulnerability7
security7
sca7
senchacmd7
vulnerabilities7
sencha7
security-vulnerability6
database6
jpedal6
appveyor6
nuget6
ioc-container6
csharp5
package5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Luzenna/Nostradamus
Jan 2016 - Aug 2024
Chess Engine
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 8 years 8 months
chess-enginepythonmachine-learning
tfso/azuresblite
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 pushes in 3 months
azure-service-busamqp-protocolplatformsbusamqp
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.