Ricco Førgaard
Senior Consultant & Partner at Apparat
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolRicco Førgaard is a senior consultant and partner with 14 years of hands-on experience building web and streaming applications, currently focused on robust API and content metadata systems for TV 2 Play. He excels at designing and implementing APIs, data visualizations, and tooling across stacks including Go, Java, Ruby on Rails, and Node.js, and brings strong DevOps fluency with Docker, Ansible, Redis, Kafka and Kubernetes. At Apparat and TV 2 he blends backend engineering with performance and cost-aware operational work, optimizing systems for production scale. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from planning and design to continuous delivery—he’s equally at home prototyping new features and automating pipelines. Always curious, he’s recently been exploring Go and iOS/Swift development, reflecting a pragmatic belief that languages and frameworks are learnable tools. Based in Bergen, Norway, he pairs social-science-informed thinking with a pragmatic engineering approach to solve content and metadata challenges.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Aalborg UniversityDatamatiker, Computer science, Datamatiker, Computer science at Nordjyllands ErhvervsakademiStudentereksamen, Matematisk, Studentereksamen, Matematisk at Fjerritslev Gymnasium
Norwegian, Danish, English
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Github Skills (67)
polling10
node-application9
github-api9
routes9
converter9
javascript8
golang8
raspberry-pi8
nodejs8
elasticsearch-js8
fluentd7
amazon-elasticsearch7
go7
logging7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fiskeben/mcp3008.js
Nov 2013 - Dec 2017
A node.js module for querying an mcp3008 analog/digital converter.
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 1 month
nodejsjavascriptdigital-converterconverterpolling
fiskeben/balena-ads-b
Nov 2021 - Jun 2026
Balena-ready dump1090-fa + piaware + fr24feed with docker-compose
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
balenadocker-composepiaware
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