Summary
Ola Bildtsen is a seasoned software leader and Director of Software Development at Thomson Reuters Special Services with over two decades of hands-on experience building Groovy/Grails, Java, and JavaScript applications. He brings deep domain knowledge in graph databases, RDF/Semantic Web, and both SQL and NoSQL systems, having led teams across industries from finance and healthcare to biotechnology and transportation. Ola has a proven track record of stabilizing complex, multi-tier architectures and delivering product launches under tight deadlines, blending technical stewardship with team leadership. Comfortable at both enterprise scale and startup-focused projects, he frequently champions emerging technologies and pragmatic development practices. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs an academic background (MS, University of Minnesota; BA, Amherst) with a reputation for translating semantic and graph data challenges into maintainable production systems. An unadvertised strength is his history of re-architecting client-side and integration layers (e.g., Flex-to-modern frontends and messaging/ERP integrations), which often accelerates time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Minnesota
BA, BA at Amherst College