Peder Søholt
CTO & Co-founder at Bookis
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolPeder Søholt is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder with two decades of experience building data-driven SaaS products and scaling engineering teams from small startups to global launches. As CTO and Co-founder of Plaace and now Energee, he blends strategic vision with hands-on engineering to deliver location intelligence and energy-performance platforms that help businesses make better operational decisions. He has a proven track record of rapid user growth and engagement—having grown Wowbox to millions of MAUs across Asia and launched high-concurrency streaming at NRK—while also building international partner networks. Peder champions agile, product-led development and created the “High Five Driven Development” framework to boost team autonomy and performance. An early contributor to open-source tooling, he ported the C# VerbalExpressions library, showing a practical commitment to clean, testable code. Educated in advanced software engineering (MSc, University of Sheffield), he pairs academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for turning data into actionable product value.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MSc (Eng), Advanced Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MSc (Eng), Advanced Software Engineering at The University of SheffieldBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of South-Eastern Norway
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
regular-expression10
code-library10
lib10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
dotnet9
asp-net9
net9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
VerbalExpressions/CSharpVerbalExpressions
Jul 2013 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 43 commits, 13 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peder's contributions primarily involve the initial port of the C# VerbalExpressions library. This includes the core implementation of the library's functionalities, which enable the construction of regular expressions in a more readable and maintainable manner. The user also created unit tests and updated the project files. Furthermore, the user enhanced the code and added more tests, fixing the remove modifier functionality, and refactoring the sanitize functionality.
psoholt/CSharpVerbalExpressions
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 day
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