Øyvind Grønnesby
Director Of Software Engineering at Vespa.ai
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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RockstarØyvind Grønnesby is a Director of Software Engineering based in Trondheim, Norway, with a decade of experience building and leading backend-focused teams. He currently leads engineering at Vespa.ai, contributing hands-on to the Vespa engine where he refactored routing APIs and added tenant billing endpoints for a high-performance AI + data platform. Known for balancing technical depth with product focus, he drives reliable, scalable systems used for online AI workloads. Colleagues describe him as an engineering leader who still codes, shipping pragmatic API changes and improving test coverage. His work on a prominent open-source project demonstrates comfort operating at the intersection of distributed systems, APIs, and production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (12)
url-routing10
javas10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
vespa10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The AI search platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:198 reviews, 112 commits, 410 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Øyvind primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the routing API within the Vespa engine. They reverted changes related to exposing endpoints for a given instance and billing system, and implemented a new API endpoint to view and set the billing plan for a tenant. The user also contributed by creating new features in testing classes, specifically in the context of the endpoints API.
aivespasearch-enginebig-dataserving-recommendation
vespa-cloud/terraform-aws-enclave
Feb 2023 - Sep 2025
Terraform modules for Vespa Cloud Enclave (AWS)
Contributions:7 releases, 20 reviews, 35 PRs in 2 years 7 months
awsterraform-modulevespa
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