Oddbjørn Kvalsund
Chief Technology Officer at Diffia
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOddbjørn Kvalsund is a Oslo-based Chief Technology Officer with 13 years in software engineering and a decade designing and building systems for major Norwegian government organizations. At Diffia he progressed from senior engineer to CTO, leading technical architecture and full-stack delivery for the company’s product portfolio. His background blends consulting, board-level experience, and hands-on development, giving him a pragmatic view of how to translate complex public-sector requirements into maintainable software. With an MSc in Computer Science and earlier studies in electronic engineering, he pairs formal engineering depth with years of operational leadership. Unusually for a CTO, he remains an active coder and architect, ensuring technical decisions stay grounded in real implementation trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Newcastle UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Østfold University College (HiØ)
Github Skills (76)
maven-plugin10
kotlin-library10
gradle-plugin10
jackson10
intellij-plugin10
webassembly10
iban10
binding10
kotlin10
validation9
api9
programming-language9
fhirpath9
parsing9
fluent-interface9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oddbjornkvalsund/aslan
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
oddbjornkvalsund/async-http-client
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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