Magne Helleborg
Technical Architect at REMA 1000 i Norge
Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
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Top SchoolMagne Helleborg is a Technical Architect with eight years of experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and AI-infused solutions from Norway. He blends hands-on engineering and leadership across startups and enterprise teams—co-founding two ventures and leading technical initiatives at Dolittle, ABAX, and Extenda Retail—now shaping platform strategy at REMA 1000. Deeply interested in making it easier to build good software, he contributes to high-performance open-source projects like Proto Actor, where he improved MongoDB-based identity and clustering for distributed actors. His expertise spans DDD, event sourcing, and resilient clustering, and he often operates at the intersection of backend engineering and test automation. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex distributed problems into pragmatic, testable designs that scale in production.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of South-Eastern Norway
Github Skills (10)
actor10
distributed-systems10
csharp10
xunit10
mongodb10
clustering10
mongodb-database10
dotnet-core10
testing10
distributed-computing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
asynkron/protoactor-dotnet
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 101 commits, 100 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Magne primarily contributed to testing and implementing features related to MongoDB identity lookup and cluster functionality within the Proto Actor framework. Their work involved writing new tests, refactoring existing tests, and integrating MongoDB-based locking mechanisms for actor spawning. They also fixed issues related to partition identity and cluster state management.
protobufgrpcultraprotodistributed-actors
mhelleborg/searchlite
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
SearchLite is a lightweight .NET library that provides full-text search capabilities on SQLite and PostgreSQL databases. It offers a simple, unified interface for creating, managing, and querying search indexes without the complexity of dedicated search engines.
Contributions:5 releases, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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