Kristian Aune
Founder at vespaengine
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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RockstarKristian Aune is a founder and Head of Customer Success with a decade of experience building and operating backend and DevOps systems, currently based in Trondheim, Norway. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to the high-profile Vespa.ai open-source project—with customer-focused leadership to translate complex AI+data infrastructure into reliable, customer-ready solutions. Previously associated with Yahoo, he brings enterprise-scale perspective to startup product and operations challenges. Known for practical improvements like feed-client portability, clearer error handling, and build/test reliability, he pairs technical rigor with a usability mindset. Kristian’s mission-driven approach emphasizes bridging innovative solutions and customer satisfaction, often surfacing subtle infrastructure fixes that improve developer and user experience.
9 years of coding experience
English, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (20)
big-data10
java10
vespa10
javas10
debug9
cicd9
shell8
sh8
go8
ai8
script8
scripting8
documentation7
cpp6
embedding6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:183 reviews, 280 commits, 268 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the backend and DevOps aspects of the Vespa project. Their work included using the US locale in Java files, making the feed client standalone script runnable from any directory, fixing typos and updating links in the client-side GUI, and improving error messages. They also addressed logging issues and made changes to the build and testing infrastructure. Additionally, the user made code corrections.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
vespa-cloud/.github
Feb 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 9 months
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