Sindre Aarsaether
Co-founder & CTO at Identu AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSindre Aarsaether is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience, currently serving as Co-founder & CTO of Scrimba (YC S20) and creator of the Imba programming language. Based in Oslo, he blends hands-on front-end engineering and UI/UX design with product leadership, having driven syntax and feature improvements in Imba to make full‑stack development more pleasant and consistent. He has founded and led multiple companies, from startups to product-focused teams, and has steered technical strategy as CTO at Propell and other ventures. Known for shipping developer-focused tools and improving component-level UX, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
css9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
imba/imba
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
🐤 The friendly full-stack language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & UI/UX Designer
Front-end Developer & UI/UX DesignerContributions:9 releases, 17 reviews, 3130 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Sindre primarily focused on front-end development and UI improvements within the Imba project. Their commits centered around updating code syntax and implementing changes to the framework's features to make them more consistent with modern standards. The contributions involved the addition of key features and modifiers and improvements related to user interfaces, and the component's visual aspects.
rustfull-stackjavascriptdeclarativeframework
imba/imba-base-template
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Official Imba Base Template for new projects
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
templatebase-templateboilerplateimbawebapp
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