Odd-roar Wangen
Security Architect at Thales Norway AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolOdd-roar Wangen is a Security Architect based in Oslo with nine years focused on security architecture and a long career in system development stretching back to the late 1990s. He has designed and hardened systems for public health agencies and enterprise clients, currently shaping security solutions at Thales Norway after roles at Direktoratet for e-helse and Helsedirektoratet. Comfortable bridging hands-on development and architecture, he started as a senior system developer at Nordea and brings deep operational understanding to threat modeling and secure designs. An open-source back-end contributor to the popular zigbee-herdsman ecosystem, he has practical experience integrating IoT devices like dimmers and thermostats from multiple vendors. Trained in system development and with early experience teaching C++ and Pascal, he blends academic grounding with pragmatic engineering and a knack for making complex security requirements auditable and implementable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Systemutvikling, Bachelor's degree, Systemutvikling at Polytechnical College (Den Polytekniske Høgskolen)Examen artium, EDB linjen, fordypning innen digitalteknikk og databehandling, Examen artium, EDB linjen, fordypning innen digitalteknikk og databehandling at Tønsberg Maritime Videregående Skole
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (8)
zigbee10
javascript10
device-driver10
driver10
integrations9
hardware-interface9
system-integration9
json9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Collection of device converters to be used with zigbee-herdsman
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Odd-roar primarily contributed to device converter implementations for the Zigbee-herdsman project. Their work involved adding support for new smart home devices, specifically dimmers and thermostats, from various vendors like Namron, Philips, and ELKO. The commits included code modifications to integrate these devices, including adjustments to device configurations and associated functionality. Furthermore, the user enhanced existing device support by incorporating features such as battery voltage reporting.
zigbeeconverters
owangen/zigbee2mqtt.io
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
📘 Zigbee2mqtt documentation
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
iobrokerhome-assistantmqttzigbee2mqtt
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