Rune Darrud is a seasoned network engineer with 15 years' experience designing, automating and operating resilient IT infrastructures across government and utility sectors in the Greater Oslo Region. He combines deep Windows Server and Active Directory expertise with hands-on skills in VMware, Hyper-V, firewalls, network monitoring and scripting (PowerShell/Python) to deliver scalable, secure environments for tens of thousands of users and devices. At Bærum and Elvia he led large-scale deployments—AD multi-forest architecture, SCCM/Orchestrator automation and distributed Icinga monitoring for thousands of hosts—while routinely integrating configuration management and monitoring silos. An active contributor to the Icinga2 project, he improved Windows installation/uninstallation flows and enhanced logging and metrics, reflecting practical open-source impact on production monitoring stacks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical design, troubleshooting and automation that reduce operational overhead and increase observability. He brings a rare mix of deep platform knowledge and developer mindset, often solving infrastructure challenges with custom scripting and packaging.
The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 24 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rune primarily focused on improving the installation and uninstallation processes of the Icinga2 package, especially on Windows environments through Chocolatey. They added support for x64 setups and MSI uninstallation within the Chocolatey package. Additionally, they contributed to the overall codebase by fixing minor issues and enhancing the logging and metrics-related features of the Icinga2 system.
Contributions:117 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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