Kristian Lunde
CTO (Partner) at Kardigan AS
Sarpsborg, Norway
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Top SchoolKristian Lunde is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building and operating web applications and technical teams from Norway. As co-founder and partner at Brandsafe and owner of Kardigan AS, he blends hands-on development, software architecture and project management to deliver reliable production systems. His background spans LAMP and Java stacks, REST API design, server operations across *nix and Windows, and earlier leadership roles as Head of Development and senior engineer. He has led end-to-end projects including a social networking platform and crisis management systems, demonstrating strength in turning complex requirements into maintainable solutions. Based in Sarpsborg, he pairs entrepreneurial ownership with academic computer science training and a pragmatic focus on shipping practical, long-lived software. An understated but consistent theme in his career is bridging operational responsibility with architecture—renting and maintaining servers as readily as designing APIs.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Østfold University College (HiØ)IT-candidate, Computer science/GIS, IT-candidate, Computer science/GIS at University of South-Eastern Norway
English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
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Github Skills (9)
mongoose7
api6
expressjs5
php4
nodejs4
mongodb4
javascript3
content-management2
content-management-system1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Kardigan/laravel-kong-jwt
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 20 commits, 21 pushes in 3 years 8 months
kristianlunde/Vardigan
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 6 months
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