Summary
Odd Cappelen is a senior consultant and software developer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and ML tooling, especially on AWS and GCP. He co-founded and served as CTO of Geniess, where he led product development of a SaaS analytics platform for the energy sector and grew the tech team from 1 to 4 while working closely with customers. His background spans consulting at BearingPoint—delivering ML training/deployment pipelines, analytics platforms for a major bank, and behavioral analysis for media—and early systems work at FFI and Microsoft that involved robotics, C++ and distributed data ingestion. Comfortable bridging product, engineering and business, he pairs dual master’s degrees in computer science (AI) and economics with hands-on experience in Terraform, Docker, SageMaker and cloud orchestration. Notably, he moved from academic and defense research prototypes into commercial SaaS and accelerator-backed entrepreneurship, demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical concepts into customer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Siviløkonom, Økonomi, Siviløkonom, Økonomi at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Trondheim Katedralskole
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English