Kristine Kaland
Grand Archmage at Team Ricochet
Mandal, Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKristine Kaland is a pragmatic software architect and senior developer with 15 years’ experience specializing in Drupal, PHP and Meteor, currently leading development work under Kaland Web and Team Ricochet from Mandal, Norway. She excels at rescuing and improving messy, legacy systems—balancing maintainability with pragmatic deadline-driven tradeoffs—and documents her fixes so value isn’t lost. Comfortable across DevOps and backend tooling, Kristine has contributed to notable open-source projects that streamline VM packaging and Vagrant-Parallels integration, bringing real-world automation and versioning improvements. Known for clear communication and patience when untangling complex codebases, she’s equally happy writing PHP modules or authoring Ansible scripts. Always learning, she’s expanding into React, WordPress and Elixir to broaden her toolkit.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at DeVry University - Fremont
Norwegian, Norwegian, Greek, French, English, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Slovenian
Github Skills (12)
bash10
device-driver10
driver10
vagrant10
parallels10
virtualization10
ruby10
automation9
automations9
ubuntu9
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/veewee
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristine primarily contributed to the automation and packaging of virtual machine images for the Veewee project, specifically for the Parallels provider. Their work involved adding and modifying scripts and configurations within Ubuntu templates to integrate and configure tools such as Ruby, Puppet, Chef, and the VirtualBox guest additions, including related cleanup steps. Key contributions include the implementation of an export command for the Parallels provider, streamlining the process of exporting and packaging virtual machine images.
vagrantvmsesxiansiblehyper-v
Parallels/vagrant-parallels
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Vagrant Parallels Provider
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 23 comments, 11 issues in 23 days
Contributions summary:Kristine's contributions primarily focused on improving the integration between Vagrant and Parallels Desktop. They addressed issues related to registering and unregistering virtual machine templates, replacing VM names with UUIDs for more robust operation. The user also implemented versioning features, including a method to query the Parallels driver version, which is essential for interoperability. These changes streamlined the VM management process within the Vagrant environment.
vagrantproviderpluginvirtualboxparallels
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