Kristoffer Rakstad
Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKristoffer Rakstad is a Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer based in Oslo with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and robotics software. He has driven mission-critical platform work at Cognite and TikTok/ByteDance, including integrity and risk platforms serving over a billion users and cloud services for autonomous robot inspections used by major industrial customers. Comfortable from low-level embedded and control systems to high-level architecture and ML-serving infrastructure, he combines deep systems programming (C/C++, Python, ROS) with production-grade backend and cloud engineering. His background includes real-world robotics competitions and naval logistics service, giving him a pragmatic systems perspective and resilience under pressure. Known for blending engineering rigor with product focus, he also mentors robotics teams and has a track record of shipping safety- and scale-oriented systems in regulated industries.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Dept. of Computer Science Control Intelligent Systems & Robotics, Exchange Student Dept. of Computer Science Control Intelligent Systems & Robotics at National University of SingaporeKvartermester (Sersjant), Kvartermester (Sersjant) at Royal Norwegian Officer Candidate SchoolNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (137)
ubuntu10
unreal10
client-server10
vacuum10
async-await10
ros10
concurrency10
robotics10
matrix10
async10
mahjong10
behavior-tree10
sensor-fusion10
rust10
autonomous-robots10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Sollimann/CleanIt
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Open-source Autonomy Software in Rust-lang with gRPC for the Roomba series robot vacuum cleaners. Under development.
Contributions:1 release, 130 commits, 27 PRs in 2 months
rustgrpclangrobotautonomy
Sollimann/bonsai
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Rust implementation of AI behavior trees.
Contributions:9 releases, 26 reviews, 185 commits in 4 months
gamegame-aipistonnavigationtrees
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