Robert Nordan
Manager, Sopra Steria
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Nordan is a GIS-focused software leader with 15 years of experience blending hands-on development, DevOps practices, and IT management across cloud migration and consultancy engagements in Norway. Currently a manager at Sopra Steria, he previously led IT operations and architecture at Norkart, guiding teams through a shift from on-prem servers to Azure and modern CI/CD workflows. A long-time open-source advocate, he has contributed tangible UI/UX and test improvements to the prominent Leaflet mapping library—fixing cross-browser marker rendering and draggable-marker behavior. He combines deep domain knowledge in geomatics (MSc, NTNU) with practical cloud and developer-experience improvements that shorten time to market and reduce failures. Colleagues know him as adaptable and curious, equally comfortable coaching developers and diving into front-end GIS code. He brings a map-geek’s eye for location intelligence to solving complex infrastructure and product problems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetVideregående skole, Videregående skole at Oslo Handelsgymnasium
English, Norwegian, French
Github Skills (5)
maps10
javascript10
leaflet10
html9
css5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet
Nov 2012 - Oct 2014
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the Leaflet library by implementing and testing UI/UX changes related to marker icons and map events. Specifically, they addressed a DOM object reuse issue when updating marker icons, ensuring correct rendering in different browsers. The user also added tests to verify the correct behavior of draggable markers and their icon updates, demonstrating a focus on improving user interactions. These contributions improve the functionality and usability of the Leaflet library, especially for users interacting with map markers.
leafletjavascript-libraryjavascriptmapmobile-friendly
PintaProject/PintaUploadAddin
Sep 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 9 months
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