Oskar Vidarsson
Special Engineer at Helse Vest IKT
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOskar Vidarsson is a systems-focused engineer with 10 years’ experience building cloud and HPC compute tools for sensitive and non-sensitive data analysis, currently working as a Special Engineer at Helse Vest IKT in Bergen. Trained in bioinformatics and molecular biology (M.Sc. and B.Sc.), he blends domain knowledge with practical DevOps skills—containers, Linux, GPU/HPC, pipelines and monitoring—to support reproducible research and clinical workloads. He has a strong track record in Nordic university environments (UiO, UiB, Linköping) delivering secure pipelines and infrastructure for medical imaging and genomics projects. Known as a command-line “wizard,” he favors correctness and careful system design over quick fixes, reflecting his motto that details matter. His research background includes performance analysis of classifiers and hands-on molecular biology work, giving him uncommon empathy for both wet-lab constraints and production-grade compute. Fluent in building robust, auditable compute environments for regulated data, he excels at translating research needs into scalable operational systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at University of Skövde
English, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian
Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oskarvid/wdl_germline_pipeline
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 52 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
oskarvid/terra-ble
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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