Magnus Reftel
Senior Engineer at Skatteetaten
Grimstad, Agder, Norway
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Top SchoolMagnus Reftel is a senior software engineer with 11+ years of consultancy and in-house experience, currently building secure, reliable systems at the Norwegian Tax Office from Grimstad. Originally from Göteborg, he has a strong low-level and systems background across mobile, embedded and backend domains, with roles at ST-Ericsson, Spotify and early-stage ventures that honed both hands-on coding and test-automation skills. He frequently assumes informal technical lead and mentoring responsibilities, helping teams raise code quality and delivery tempo. A CISSP-certified engineer, Magnus brings a persistent security mindset that uncovers and fixes subtle issues others often miss. He also runs a part-time consultancy, combining institutional insight with the flexibility to tackle diverse technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computing Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computing Science at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
swagger10
instrumentation10
specification10
jenkins-plugin10
tabular10
command-line-tool10
openapi10
continuous-testing10
swagger-ui10
api10
kafka-consumer10
database-migrations10
json10
groovy10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
reftel/gatling-kafka
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 11 months
apache-kafkagatlingtest-pluginapachestress-test
reftel/logback
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
loggerstructured-logginglogginggenericlogging-framework
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