Robin Smidsrød
Senior Developer DevOps Engineer at Fagbokforlaget V&B AS
Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
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Top SchoolRobin Smidsrød is a Senior Developer and DevOps Engineer from Norway with over three decades of computing experience and 27 years working with Linux. He has led development of a large Perl-based CMS serving 50,000+ users and evolved into driving Azure, Kubernetes and observability stacks (Elastic, InfluxDB, Grafana) in production. Certified LPIC-1 and NCLA/NCTS, Robin combines deep systems-level expertise—evidenced by contributions to the widely used iPXE network bootloader—with long-running hands-on work in databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and ISP operations. He also mentors open-source students and has experience coordinating GSoC efforts, reflecting a knack for growing talent alongside delivering resilient infrastructure. Pragmatic, curious and steady under pressure, he brings both legacy-system wisdom and modern cloud-native practice to complex operations and automation challenges.
20 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Generell studiekompetanse, General studies, Generell studiekompetanse, General studies at Tønsberg maritime videregående skoleBachelor, Computer Science, A (highest), Bachelor, Computer Science, A (highest) at University of South-Eastern Norway
English, Norwegian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
ipxe10
sys10
embedded10
c119
perl9
c179
pci8
boot8
makefile8
system-configuration7
build-automation7
html6
xml6
hash6
net6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ipxe/ipxe
Mar 2012 - Mar 2018
iPXE network bootloader
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the iPXE network bootloader project by implementing features and making enhancements related to system utilities and core functionality. They added a utility to generate a list of supported network cards, improved the build process by rewriting a parsing tool, and incorporated new settings. Further contributions included modifying the configuration files to target specific hardware and features, demonstrating an understanding of system-level configuration and embedded systems design.
iprouterosospfipv4ipxe
networkboot/planet_generator
Apr 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 10 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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