Onar Vikingstad
Senior Engineering Manager Enterprise & Education Products
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolOnar Vikingstad is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years at Apple, currently managing Enterprise & Education products that power classroom and institutional experiences worldwide. He has progressed from web and iCloud engineering to senior management, blending hands-on front-end experience with strategic leadership of iOS, server, and ML/data teams. His background includes early contributions to the SproutCore framework, improving cross-browser stability and UI rendering—an indicator of deep attention to robust client-side behavior. With an MS in Management Information Systems and international undergraduate studies in marketing, he combines technical rigor with product and market sensibility. Based in Mountain View, he focuses on hiring and scaling multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful educational tools. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns complex requirements into reliable, user-centered systems.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, International Marketing - Oslo, Norway, Bachelor of Science, International Marketing - Oslo, Norway at BI Norwegian Business SchoolBS, International Marketing - Barcelona, Spain, BS, International Marketing - Barcelona, Spain at EsadeBachelor of Science, International Marketing - Madrid, Spain, Bachelor of Science, International Marketing - Madrid, Spain at Universidad Pontificia ComillasMaster of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Liautaud Graduate School of Business
Norwegian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
sproutcore10
css7
tomcat6
icloud-api6
ios6
configurations6
macos6
cloudkit6
cocoa6
icloud6
encoding6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
sproutcore/sproutcore
Aug 2010 - Nov 2011
JavaScript Application Framework - JS library only
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Onar primarily focused on improving the SproutCore framework's front-end functionality. Their contributions included adding sanity checks in `CoreQuery` to prevent IE errors and initializing temporary properties in `SC.SparseArray`. Further work involved enhancing the `SC.Array` and `SC.TreeItemObserver` classes and adjusting the `FlowedLayout` for better performance. They also fixed HTML and CSS rendering issues.
javascriptjs
sproutcore/abbot
Dec 2010 - May 2011
SproutCore Build Tools [deprecated]
Contributions:7 commits in 5 months
sproutcore
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