Per Buer
Head Of Strategy And Innovation
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPer Buer is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over two decades of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and commercial products from idea to market. He has led engineering and strategy at startups and scale-ups—founding Varnish Software, serving as CTO/CEO roles, and most recently heading strategy and innovation—while also diving back into hands-on engineering as a principal developer. His work spans embedded and edge systems to cloud platforms, including building distributed reverse-SSH, in-house PKI, MQTT pipelines, and integrations between routers and GCP/Kubernetes backends using Go, C++ and TypeScript. Per combines a strong operations pedigree from managed hosting and infrastructure with product instincts honed by multiple company exits and pivots, and he explicitly values leading by doing to stay close to the technology. Projects range from unikernel research at IncludeOS to IoT and flood-prediction prototypes, showing a willingness to tackle hard, unconventional problems. Based in Oslo, he brings entrepreneurial grit, pragmatic engineering, and a track record of turning technical experiments into profitable businesses.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer science, Bachelor Computer science at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian, German, Polish
Github Skills (200)
reverse-proxy10
python10
hyper-v10
http10
resumable-upload10
micropython10
vms10
fault-tolerance10
embedded10
resumable10
segment10
varnish10
tus10
golang10
high-performance10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
perbu/dgram
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Async UDP server in Micropython using the new uasyncio lib
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pythonarqasyncioudp-serverudp
anthdm/hollywood
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Blazingly fast and light-weight Actor engine written in Golang
Contributions:30 reviews, 19 PRs, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
actor-modeldistributed-systemsfault-tolerancegolangmicroservices
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