Olaf Øvrum
Senior Consultant at Forse
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOlaf Øvrum is a Senior Consultant and iOS developer based in Oslo with 11 years of software engineering experience and three years focused on native iOS apps across offshore, healthcare, and aviation domains. He currently maintains and develops production apps like Svippr and RuterBillett, implementing features such as ticket delivery via MQTT and stable booking flows. Olaf contributes to open-source, notably improving the FontAwesome.swift library by adding configuration, font-loading utilities and support for Font Awesome 5, showing attention to robustness and cross-project collaboration. He combines a background in game and experience technology with practical mobile engineering, bringing a user-centered mindset to complex, regulated industries. Active in the community, he also organizes Apprise Conf, signaling an interest in knowledge sharing and developer ecosystems. Open to consulting engagements, he offers pragmatic delivery and steady maintenance for mission-critical mobile apps.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Spill- og Opplevelsesteknologi, Bachelor's degree, Spill- og Opplevelsesteknologi at Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT)
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (8)
uiimage10
uifont10
macos10
swift10
ios10
cocoapods5
tvos5
carthage5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thii/FontAwesome.swift
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Use FontAwesome in your Swift projects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Olaf primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of the FontAwesome Swift library. Their work involved adding new functionalities such as a configuration namespace and a function to load the font into memory. The user also addressed reported issues by correcting typos and fixing potential crash scenarios related to image size, alongside merging updates from other contributors. The user further refined the library to incorporate the Font Awesome 5 icon set.
cocoapodstvosswift-projectsswiftcarthage
huconglobal/RestFire
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:27 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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