Nikolai Andersen
Chief Technology Officer at Variant
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Andersen is a pragmatic CTO based in Oslo with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, developer tooling, and high-performing engineering teams. He combines hands-on contributions—such as robustness fixes to the widely used FAKE build system—with strategic leadership at Variant, focusing on architecture, deployment pipelines, and developer experience. Previously he led teams and privacy initiatives as Senior Software Engineer and DPO at Confrere and ran .NET and container practices at Bekk, bringing strong operational and consultancy background. Known for integrating privacy-by-design into delivery processes, he also shares practical secure-computing guidance at conferences and in writing. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who prioritizes shipping quickly without sacrificing quality, and who pays attention to the small infrastructure details that prevent large outages.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
fsharp10
dotnet10
build-automation9
command-line-arguments8
sys7
operating-system7
windows7
microsoft-azure5
azure5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/FAKE
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
FAKE - F# Make
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai made several contributions related to the FAKE build system. Their work focused on improving the handling of external dependencies, particularly with respect to the `npm` package manager on Windows. They also corrected code in the Kudu deployment system by fixing a quotation mark issue, changing the way `starter.cmd` is located, and modifying how command-line arguments are constructed. These changes indicate a focus on improving the robustness and usability of the build and deployment processes.
fsharpdotnetcsharpdotnet-core
nikolaia/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:68 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 8 years 5 months
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