Ragnar Ekker
Software Engineer at Nortek
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolRagnar Ekker is a software engineer in Oslo with 11 years of experience applying software and data skills to renewables, hydrology, and environmental forecasting. He combines an MS in Engineering Physics from NTNU with hands-on roles building forecasting tools, instrumentation, and crowdsourced platforms like regObs.no during a decade at NVE. Currently at Nortek, he focuses on engineering solutions that bridge field work, modelling and user-facing tools for environmental applications. Ragnar’s background in energy management and integrated design for low-energy buildings gives him a systems-level view of sustainability challenges. Known for turning complex geophysical data into practical forecasting and analysis tools, he actively blends domain expertise with pragmatic software development. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of field data, modeling and user-oriented tool design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (8)
ice10
api8
localization8
forecast8
forecasting8
charts7
translation7
time-series7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ragnarekker/varsomdata
Nov 2015 - Nov 2019
Repository contains methods and modules for accessing api's for regObs, The forecasting-api and The chart server which provides charts to seNorge and xGeo. All these products are a part of the Varsom-family; products used in forecasting at NVE.
Contributions:108 commits, 2 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 years
forecastingapichartschartapi-s
ragnarekker/icemodelling
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
A one dimentional ice thickness model
Contributions:131 commits, 6 PRs, 118 pushes in 4 years 10 months
ice
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