Summary
Olav 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