Martin Ehrnst
Principal Architect at Simplifai
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMartin Ehrnst is a Principal Architect and hands-on cloud engineer based in Oslo with over 20 years in the trenches and nine years focused on modern cloud platforms. He designs and builds developer-facing internal platforms and high-performance, large-scale SaaS solutions, with deep hands-on expertise in Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), monitoring and automation. A Microsoft Azure MVP since 2019, he blends strategic architectural leadership with day-to-day implementation—ensuring developer experience is treated as a product. He has led platform initiatives at Vipps and Intility and now explores AI solutions while enabling developer autonomy at Simplifai. An experienced public speaker on Azure management and monitoring, he often surfaces practical patterns that bridge on-prem and cloud operations. Notably, he pairs big-picture platform decisions with the operational detail of monitoring and CI/CD to keep systems reliable at scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
IKT Drift, IKT Drift at Nesodden VGS
English
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Github Skills (137)
command-line-interface10
azure-cli10
infrastructure10
dx10
arm10
management-pack10
microservices10
api10
azure10
cli10
deploying10
scom10
system-center10
powershell9
bicep9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ehrnst/azure-infrastructure-as-code-series
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Contains code samples for Azure Bicep and ARM templates used by Marcel Zehner and Martin Ehrnst for their Azure Infrastructure as code series
Contributions:108 commits, 50 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 9 months
azure-bicepinfrastructurebicepmarcelas-code
vippsas/backstage-azure-resource-frontend
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A frontend plugin showing Azure resources in relation to entities in Backstage
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
frontend-pluginazure-resourcesbackstagefrontendazure
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