Martin Alnæs
Principal Software Engineer at Riff
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMartin Alnæs is a Principal Software Engineer with a PhD in Computational Science and 11+ years of experience building high-performance systems spanning scientific computing, fintech, and embedded software. He combines deep numerical methods and PDE expertise from academia (notably FEniCS and OpenDreamKit) with hands-on production engineering in Go, Python, C++ and SQL, having driven core payment systems at Vipps and real-time DSP work at Cisco. Martin excels at bridging math-heavy algorithms and scalable backend architectures—designing idempotent APIs, high-throughput batch pipelines, and fault-tolerant event-driven systems. He is comfortable across the stack from low-level C on embedded hardware to domain-specific languages, code generation and symbolic/numerical tooling, and he brings an unusual blend of research leadership and product-focused delivery. Based in Oslo, he now focuses on accelerating developer productivity and data apps at Riff, applying academic rigor to shipping user-facing, high-impact software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Science Computer Science Mathematics Mechanics, PhD Computational Science Computer Science Mathematics Mechanics at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (96)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
martinal/configs
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
martinal/qmk_firmware
Jan 2021 - Jul 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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