Martin Othamar
Hired Consultant - Backend Developer & Team Architect at Norwegian Digitalisation Agency
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMartin Othamar is a backend-focused software engineer and architect with 11 years of experience designing high-performance distributed systems and developer platforms across finance, maritime, and public sector domains. Based in Oslo, he currently architects DevEx improvements for Altinn Studio at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency and consults on performance, Rust, and Go at Forse. He has a strong track record modernizing infrastructure—migrating to cloud-native stacks, introducing IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and building low-latency event-driven systems such as an Orleans-based odds-feed that achieved subsecond Monte Carlo simulations at scale. An active open-source contributor, Martin maintains a high-performance .NET Mediator implementation using source generators and focuses on benchmarking and pragmatic refactors to squeeze real-world gains. He combines hands-on coding with team leadership—running interviews, onboarding engineers, and producing architectural guidance that balances legal/operational constraints with technical elegance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, IT and Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, IT and Information Systems at University of Agder (UiA)Higher Education Entrance Qualification, Toppidrett fotball, Higher Education Entrance Qualification, Toppidrett fotball at Toppidrettsgymnaset i Telemark
English, Norwegian, faroese
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
mediator10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
benchmarking8
benchmark8
html6
primefaces6
php6
jsf6
jquery6
forms6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
martinothamar/Mediator
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
A high performance implementation of Mediator pattern in .NET using source generators.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 18 reviews, 83 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to updating the codebase, including the README, benchmarks, samples, and tests. They made significant changes to the test suite, adding and modifying pipeline tests, and introducing generic pipeline implementations. Their work also included benchmark setup to compare the performance of Mediator and MediatR implementations. They also refactored the code by improving formatting and build configurations.
source-generationcsharp-sourcegeneratorroslyn-analyzerdotnetcoresource-generators
martinothamar/orleans
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Orleans - Distributed Virtual Actor Model
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
actoractor-frameworkactor-modelvirtual-actororleans
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