Øyvind Skaar
Fractional CTO And Tech Advisor For Startups at Devbyte AS
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolØyvind Skaar is a seasoned backend engineer and fractional CTO with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems, primarily in Go and on Google Cloud Platform. He has a track record of taking products from 0 to 1—most notably designing and shipping reMarkable’s first cloud backend and architecting numerous startup backends and APIs. As an independent consultant and founder of Devbyte AS, he combines hands-on implementation with product-minded architecture, having built and operated SaaS products for nearly a decade. Øyvind is pragmatic about trade-offs, favors lean, testable MVPs (including no-code + AI prototyping experiments), and focuses on avoiding costly mistakes in early product development. He routinely tackles hard problems like real-time synchronization, secure payments, and anti-cheat game logic while keeping operations sustainable. Based in Oslo, he publishes most new code on his public repositories and helps startups move faster with practical, production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer science Informatics, Master's degree Computer science Informatics at University of OsloSogn VGSAllmennfaglig påbygging, Allmennfaglig påbygging at Bjerke VGS
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (63)
hugo10
go10
google-cloud10
cloud-storage10
golang10
cms9
facebook9
perl9
blog-engine9
cloud-api9
facebook-graph-api9
sdk9
batch9
api8
fastest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oyvindsk/docker-playground
Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
oyvindsk/web-oyvindsk.com
Apr 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:99 pushes, 4 branches, 10 issues in 9 years 9 months
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