Ole Rynning
Developer Co-Founder Partner at UPPERCASE AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOle Rynning is a pragmatic, detail-oriented developer and co-founder with 18 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams from Oslo. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to notable open-source projects like cucumber-jvm and ruby-saml—with strategic CTO-for-hire work designing resilient cloud architectures for regulated industries. At UPPERCASE he leads cross-functional teams that combine design thinking, data science and hardcore engineering to incubate startups and deliver production-grade systems. His background spans full-stack delivery, performance tuning, data pipelines and continuous delivery, plus leadership roles that include hiring and growing engineering disciplines. He pairs academic grounding in Informatics and Computers & Law with practical automation skills, and has a knack for bridging security/compliance needs with developer velocity. Colleagues describe him as curious and results-driven, often rescuing or modernizing struggling systems while remaining an active code contributor.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatics, Computers & Law, Master Informatics, Computers & Law at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)First year Law, Computers & Law, First year Law, Computers & Law at University of OsloBachelor's degree, Software Dev, Graphs, Networks, etc, Bachelor's degree, Software Dev, Graphs, Networks, etc at Bond University
English, German, Swedish, Danish
Github Skills (16)
maven10
testing10
javas10
user-authentication10
cucumber-jvm10
authentication10
jruby10
build-automation10
java10
saml10
ruby10
plugin-development9
integration-testing9
test-framework9
xml9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
SAML SSO for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ole primarily contributed to the implementation of Single Logout (SLO) support within the Ruby SAML toolkit. Their work involved adding settings and functionality related to SLO, including the creation of logout request objects. Additionally, they updated the metadata generation to include the SLO URL. The contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the SAML library's features for identity provider integration, specifically around user session management.
railssaml-ssorubysamlsso
cucumber/cucumber-jvm
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
Cucumber for the JVM
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ole primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `cucumber-jvm` project, focusing on integrating and enhancing its functionality within a Maven build environment. Their work included the creation of a Maven plugin and its supporting classes, specifically `AbstractJRubyMojo`, `CucumberMojo`, and others, which manage JRuby dependencies and the execution of Cucumber tests. The user also integrated features and fixed various issues, improving the plugin's usability and adding support for command-line arguments.
cucumber-jvmjvmcucumberjavapolyglot-release
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