Summary
Petter Graff is a seasoned software architect, founder and advisor with over 20 years designing object-oriented and model-driven systems across embedded, real-time, and enterprise domains. He has founded multiple companies (SciSpike, VappusNet GPS, InferData) and today serves as CTO and strategic advisor, blending hands-on engineering with board-level guidance for startups and fintechs. Petter’s expertise spans Java, Scala, C++, Smalltalk, NoSQL, real-time frameworks and model-driven development, and he has a track record of accelerating delivery through tooling and code generation. He’s trained and mentored engineering teams at Fortune 500s including PayPal, IBM and Google, often converting complex business needs into pragmatic architectures. An interesting throughline in his career is applying academic rigor (math and engineering background) to commercial problems—evident in building simulation and DSL-driven codegen for embedded systems and asset-management ML products. Based in Austin, he pairs deep technical craft with strategic product sense to help organizations scale reliably.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at BI Norwegian Business School
Math, Math at University of Oslo
Natural Sciences, Natural Sciences at Stabekk VGS
University of Agder (UiA)
Engineering, Engineering at Agder Ingeniør og Destrikts Høyskole
English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch