Summary
Kristian Bø is a founder and experienced software engineer with 11 years building product-led startups and developer-first tooling, currently leading Homi to simplify collaborative home searches. He combines hands-on expertise in modern frontend and cloud stacks (Next.js, React, TypeScript, tRPC, serverless Postgres) with proven leadership as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and founding engineer at YC-backed Wordware. Kristian’s background in HCI and AI (Masters from NTNU) informs his product-driven approach and a long-standing interest in applying AI to real-world matchmaking problems—an earlier thesis that evolved into the idea behind homi.so. Comfortable working distributed while traveling, he’s pragmatic about scalable relational models and edge computing, and has shipped SOC 2 engineering controls and typed multimodal runtimes in high-growth environments. Notably, he oscillates between individual contributor depth and people-focused leadership, planning to return to management once settled.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Studiekompetanse Realfag It og engelsk, Studiekompetanse Realfag It og engelsk at Persbråten VGS
The University of Melbourne
Enkeltemne Exphil og interaksjon bruk design, Enkeltemne Exphil og interaksjon bruk design at University of Oslo
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
International leadership, International leadership at Stanford University
English, Norwegian, French