Oda Omholt
Senior Software Engineer at Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOda Omholt is a senior software engineer in Trondheim with 14 years of experience building data-driven systems across environmental modelling, energy, maritime, healthcare and research domains. She combines a formal background in Computer Science and Ecology with hands-on work in software development, data engineering and data science, most recently contributing to marine environmental models at SINTEF and cyber security tooling at Sikt. Oda brings practical cloud and streaming experience (Azure, Event Hubs, Cognite Data Fusion) and has improved both research and production codebases—from refactoring PNAS research code into a reusable Python project to enhancing JabRef’s OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration in Java. Colleagues know her for digging into root causes and complex system dynamics while balancing technical craft with curiosity, empathy and continual personal growth. Her cross-disciplinary track record and open-source contributions reflect a rare ability to translate scientific questions into robust, maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Pearson College UWCBachelor's degree Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Bachelor's degree Ecology and Natural Resource Management at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (6)
javas10
java10
error-handling9
user-interface4
ui-design4
interface-design4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JabRef/jabref
Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Oda's contributions focused on enhancing the OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration features within the JabRef application. They addressed and fixed error handling related to connecting the application with OpenOffice, particularly when there were version compatibility issues between the Java and OpenOffice environments. They also added functionality, including a settings menu item, to customize and manage citations, and began incorporating support for italics in the "et al." string within OpenOffice citation markers. These improvements involved modifications to the Java source code to improve the application's functionality related to the OpenOffice integration.
reference-manageracademic-publicationsjavafxlatexjavafx-desktop-apps
mortenalver/OxygenModel
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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