Paul Beskow
Platform Developer
Risør, Agder, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Beskow is a Platform Developer and former technical architect with a decade-long track record building scalable data and developer-experience platforms for organizations like Schibsted, Oslo Origo, and NAV. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science focused on parallel and distributed systems—with hands-on experience shipping production tooling such as okctl to streamline secure, repeatable deployments. Paul champions a problem-first approach to engineering, paired with rigorous verification, and consistently seeks to reduce developer cognitive load across data, ML, and infrastructure teams. Comfortable bridging research, architecture and delivery, he excels at defining best practices and evaluating complex platform choices like CDPs to enable long-term, cross-team success. An understated strength is his preference to avoid premature decisions while ensuring teams arrive at well-founded outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Oslo
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (115)
dashboard10
postgresql10
gorilla10
kubectl10
clojure10
database10
application-management10
mysql10
eksctl10
aws-cloudformation10
slack10
amazon10
visualization10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
paulbes/makedoc
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
oslokommune/okctl
May 2020 - May 2021
Opinionated and effortless infrastructure and application management
Contributions:156 reviews, 477 commits, 327 PRs in 1 year
eksctlgolangokctlhelmdevops
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