Øyvind Holmstad
Head Of Engineering at Unloc
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolØyvind Holmstad is a Head of Engineering based in Oslo with 13 years of experience scaling platforms and leading teams to deliver personalized, high-traffic consumer services. He currently leads engineering at Unloc after progressing from Lead Platform Developer, and previously built NRK’s recommendation and personalization architecture that powered cross-platform front pages and content discovery. Comfortable across Scala, Spark, cloud data platforms and backend systems, he blends hands-on implementation with product- and people-focused leadership. A regular conference speaker and former NDC/JavaZone agenda contributor, he brings both technical credibility and a talent for communicating complex systems. Notably, he has steered projects that balanced algorithmic relevance with public-broadcaster values, demonstrating an appreciation for ethical product impact alongside engineering excellence.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Allmennfag, Allmennfag at Kvaløya VGSMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
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Github Skills (43)
firebase-cloud-messaging9
firebase-admin9
firebase-db9
firebase8
nodejs8
firebase-authentication8
plugin-architecture8
r-package8
admin7
architecture7
sdk7
firebase-database7
realtime-database7
encryption6
react6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nrkno/odashboard
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
A configurable dashboard with a simple plugin architecture
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 10 months
architectureconfigurableplugin-architecturedashboard
oyvindholmstad/finlotteriet
Feb 2013 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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