Knut Urdalen
Co-founder & CTO at Nyby
Notodden, Norway
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Top SchoolKnut Urdalen is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building consumer and civic web platforms, currently serving as Co-founder & CTO of Nyby, a peer-to-peer public services startup in Norway. He has repeatedly combined hands-on engineering with product and growth responsibilities—co-founding Stay.com (TIME’s 50 Best Websites 2010) and leading hotel booking and telecom web products across multiple European markets. Technically grounded in PHP and build automation, he contributes to the Phing build system with practical tasks like linting, XML validation and static analysis integrations, reflecting his focus on reliable developer tooling. Based in Notodden, he’s equally comfortable managing distributed teams and teaching web fundamentals, and he describes his work ethos simply: living in the future and building what’s missing.
20 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Oslo University College, Faculty of Engineering
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (7)
php10
build-tools10
ant10
build-automation10
documentation9
xml9
architecture6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
phingofficial/phing
Feb 2006 - Feb 2007
PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Knut's contributions center around enhancing the Phing build system with new task implementations and documentation. They added tasks for PHP syntax linting and XML validation against schemas. Moreover, the user integrated a task for analyzing code using the Zend Code Analyzer tool, providing capabilities to enable/disable warnings. The user also provided documentation for existing functionality.
build-projectphpapachegnu-makegnu
knut/hamster
May 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year 3 months
light-weightyiilightphpforum
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