Martin Myrseth
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at novem
Oppegård, Viken, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Myrseth is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 14+ years of hands-on engineering experience spanning embedded GPU research, consumer web platforms, and large-scale collaboration systems. As CPO at Novem he combines product vision with deep technical craft, informed by a decade at Cisco where he tackled technical debt and built a widely adopted programmable extensions framework that inspired non-developers to script their workflows. He led modernization and developer-enablement efforts as Technical Lead at Dignio, creating tooling that reduced friction for product teams, and earlier helped scale Opera’s social platform during the rise of social media. An active open-source contributor in the Emacs ecosystem (notably Doom Emacs), Martin brings a rare mix of systems-level thinking, full‑stack capability, and practical mentorship—having hired, onboarded, and mentored engineers at scale. Based in Norway and rooted in a University of Oslo background in early GPU/CUDA work, he’s equally likely to discuss product strategy, low-level performance tradeoffs, cycling routes, or guitar riffs.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer science, Master Computer science at University of Oslo
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (5)
emacs10
emacs-lisp10
org-mode8
haskell8
devil7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
doomemacs/core
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to the Doom Emacs framework by implementing features and fixing bugs related to Emacs configuration. They added evil-friendly calendar navigation for org-mode and registered company backends for Haskell and Purescript. Further contributions included adding lookup handlers for Purescript and fixing the toggle behavior in the mu4e email integration, addressing prefix argument handling. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the Emacs ecosystem.
emacsvimemacs-lispemacs-configurationdoomemacs
myme/aoc
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:104 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 1 month
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