Kristen Hærum
Managing Director, Principal Consultant at Teltek Ltd
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Hærum is a seasoned systems architect and managing director with 11+ years of professional experience building and maintaining complex software across Java/JEE, C/C++ and Oracle RDBMS environments. She combines hands-on engineering—ranging from embedded telecom drivers and OpenVMS/Unix systems to modern web portals—with technical project leadership coordinating distributed teams and multi-vendor stakeholders. Her strengths lie in translating end-user requirements into secure, maintainable architectures that prioritize redundancy and rapid delivery using industry design patterns. Notable past work includes migration and refactoring of legacy Inmarsat and media gateway systems, plus operational support for national healthcare and insurance portals. Based in Oslo, she is pragmatic, curious and quickly grasps intricate system details, often bridging the gap between low-level protocols and user-facing applications.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of OregonLearning TreeCivil Engineer, Computer Science, Civil Engineer, Computer Science at NTH, Trondheim
Norwegian, English, German, French
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
nav10
testing10
validation3
spec2
kubernetes1
kubernetes-operator1
infrastructure1
k8s1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
navikt/testnorge
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Applikasjoner for orkestering av syntetiske testdata for fagsystemer i nav.
Contributions:574 reviews, 2667 commits, 1071 PRs in 4 years 4 months
testingtestdatanavtesting-toolsunit-testing
navikt/tps-forvalteren
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:24 reviews, 67 PRs, 183 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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