Knut Tornes
Independent Consultant at Canuto Invest AS
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKnut Tornes is an independent consultant and co-founder of restdb.io and codehooks.io, combining more than a decade of hands-on software engineering with startup-building savvy from Bergen, Norway. He specializes in backend and full-stack systems—Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL, NoSQL/Postgres—and designs serverless, cloud-native platforms across Azure, AWS and Kubernetes. As an interim CTO and system architect he helps teams simplify repetitive complexity into reliable products, and has a track record of shipping developer-friendly DBaaS and serverless APIs. His career blends product-making and consulting roles at companies from small startups to enterprise consultancies, giving him a rare fluency in both delivery and technology hiring. Knut’s background in information science and early academic lecturing hints at a methodological, research-oriented approach to engineering decisions. He’s happiest automating the boring parts so teams can focus on building delightful front-ends.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
cand.polit, Information Science, Economics, Psychology, cand.polit, Information Science, Economics, Psychology at University of Bergen (UiB)Second Lieutenant, Logistics, accounting, material admin, Second Lieutenant, Logistics, accounting, material admin at Norwegian Navy - Naval Officer School (Befalskolen for Marinen)Fana Gymnas
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (86)
terraform10
paas10
tencent10
azure10
kubernetes10
saas10
iaas10
aws10
devops10
ejdb9
rest9
api9
jql9
flutter-native9
rest-api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
canuto/free-for-dev
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
paasdevopsinterestcloudsaas
RestDB/codehooks-mongodb
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:9 releases, 11 commits, 12 pushes in 1 month
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