Nicholas Jaunsen
Technical Lead at Statistics Norway
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolNicholas Jaunsen is a Technical Lead and platform engineer based in Oslo with nine years of experience building cloud-native data platforms for public-sector analytics. He currently drives development of Statistics Norway’s cloud-based data platform (DAPLA), having progressed from software engineer to technical lead while focusing on reliable, scalable internal platforms. A lover of functional programming who humorously says he “will code for tea,” he brings a pragmatic, code-first approach to infrastructure and backend systems. His background includes backend development at Scrive and early experience importing scientific metadata at CRIStin, giving him a strong appreciation for data quality and reproducible pipelines. Trained in computer science at NTNU, he combines academic grounding with hands-on platform delivery that balances operational stability and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
SkøyenåsenskoleHigh School, Studiespesialisering, Realfag, High School, Studiespesialisering, Realfag at Oslo KatedralskoleNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian, Spanish
Github Skills (194)
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
statisticsnorway/dapla-ctrl-legacy
Nov 2024 - Mar 2026
A web interface for performing administrative tasks related to Dapla teams.
Contributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
administrationbackstagefrontendnixreact
skykanin/nixpkgs
Dec 2019 - May 2026
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:73 pushes, 28 branches, 2 tags in 6 years 5 months
nixosnix-packages
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