Olav Gjerde
CEO And Founder at Kingmakers AS
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
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Top SchoolOlav Gjerde is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience blending data retrieval, analytics, and classification expertise with product and company-building. As CEO and Founder of IntelliStream and independent developer at Kingmakers AS, he combines hands‑on engineering with strategic vision developed during leadership and CTO roles at Boost AI and long consulting stints at Aker BP and others. He is comfortable turning research into practical solutions—regularly reading academic papers to inform new algorithms and architectures—and excels at creating team harmony while pushing peers to improve. Based in Stavanger, Norway, Olav brings a rare mix of deep algorithmic knowledge, business acumen from a Master-level background, and a bias for shipping production-ready systems in complex domains like subsea and digitalization.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Development & Architecture, Bachelor, Software Development & Architecture at University of Agder (UiA)
English, Norwegian, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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11answers
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Github Skills (84)
uwsgi10
wiki-engine10
grails10
debian10
moinmoin10
self-signed10
groovy10
docker-image10
nginx10
steam9
python9
vanilla-javascript9
azure-storage9
azure-active-directory9
ssl9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
olavgg/vanillajs
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Example of web application with Vanilla Javascript
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
vanilla-javascript
olavgg/grails-doc
Jul 2017 - Feb 2023
Documentation Project For The Grails Web Application Framework
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
web-applicationweb-application-frameworkapplication-frameworkgrailsproject-documentation
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