Summary
Øyvind Ødegård is a VP DevOps and platform engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling across OpenShift and AWS. He has led migrations from on-premise to AWS, platform modernizations, and toolchain consolidations (e.g., Bitbucket to GitHub) while coaching teams to improve time-to-market and incident resilience. Known for combining tactical engineering—Ansible, OpenShift, monitoring and cost control—with people leadership, he prioritizes developer satisfaction and high-velocity, reliable delivery. He publishes practical DevOps tutorials and runs platform initiatives that make developer workflows easier, including internal CLIs and deployment dashboards. Based in Oslo, Øyvind brings a rare blend of production firefighting experience and long-term platform strategy.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Programming, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Programming at The Norwegian School of Information Technology
Master of Science (MSc) Web Applications and Services, Master of Science (MSc) Web Applications and Services at University of Leicester
Norwegian, English