Oddvar Lovaas
Engineering Manager at Hudl
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOddvar Lovaas is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years in leadership roles across product-focused companies and scale-up environments, now leading engineering at Hudl. He has a strong delivery and people-management track record from roles at Smartnumbers, Masabi and YOOX NET-A-PORTER, combining programme-level coordination with hands-on technical oversight. His background spans developer advocacy and technical account management, reflecting a talent for translating developer needs into product and operational improvements. Trained with an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a BSc from Heriot-Watt, he blends rigorous academic foundations with practical delivery experience. Based in Stony Stratford, England, he has repeatedly scaled teams and delivery processes across payments, ticketing and e-commerce domains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who prioritises team autonomy and measurable outcomes while keeping an eye on developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of OxfordHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
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Github Skills (54)
spec10
fdroid10
matrix10
kaios10
swagger10
oas10
matrix-org10
api10
swagger-ui10
the-matrix10
rest10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oddvar/redpill
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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matrix-org/matrix-appservice-rocketchat
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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