Morten Mjelva
Engineering Manager at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMorten Mjelva is an engineering manager and former principal software engineer with 16 years’ experience focused on engineering enablement and developer experience, now leading teams at Cognite in Oslo. He combines a strong technical foundation from a Master’s in Engineering Cybernetics with hands-on software delivery across embedded and cloud domains, having progressed from Nordic Semiconductor to senior roles at Computas and Cognite. Known for improving developer workflows and productivity, he blends systems thinking with practical coaching to make large engineering orgs more effective. His background includes early open-source exposure through GNOME’s Google Summer of Code and an uncommon mix of sociology and cybernetics that informs his pragmatic approach to team dynamics and tooling.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (174)
gazelle10
python10
maven10
extensible10
pip10
jar10
functional10
starlark10
kyverno10
jsonnet10
redundancy10
scalable10
json10
build-system10
bazel-rules10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mortenmj/FreeRTOS
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:38 commits in 8 days
cognitedata/bazel-snapshots
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A mechanism for doing incremental deploys with Bazel
Contributions:49 reviews, 84 commits, 92 PRs in 10 months
mechanismincrementalbazeldeploysbazel-rules
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