Snorre Von Gohren Edwin
Investor And Network Board Member at CTO Roundtable
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSnorre Von Gohren Edwin is an experienced product engineer and AI champion with 12 years building distributed systems, decentralized identity, and startup-grade products from Norway. As former CTO and co-founder of Diwala he blended decentralized architectures with traditional stacks to deliver identity solutions used in real-world pilots, and he continues to advise and mentor startups and accelerators while investing through a CTO-led GP. He brings hands-on backend and infra expertise (including contributions improving JWT parsing and developer experience in a well-known Go JWT library) alongside leadership roles in standards bodies like the DIF and W3C. Comfortable switching between deep technical work and public speaking, he focuses on pragmatic, privacy-preserving identity, biometrics and payments products that prioritize customer outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain certification, Ethereum, Blockchain certification, Ethereum at B9lab AcademyHigh school degree, General high school classes, High school degree, General high school classes at Holyoke High SchoolNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
strings10
api-design10
text-manipulation10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
error-handling10
security9
parser8
namespaces6
raspberry-pi6
android-viewpager6
gpio6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dgrijalva/jwt-go
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
ARCHIVE - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This project is now maintained at:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Snorre primarily focused on improving error handling and the overall developer experience within the `jwt-go` library. Their contributions involved refining how the library parses and validates JWT tokens, particularly concerning the "bearer" prefix in the authorization header. They made adjustments to error messages for clarity and also optimized the code for better performance in parsing the token strings. Their work primarily focused on refining existing functionality related to token parsing.
golangtokensjwt-tokensarchivejson-web-tokens
vongohren/digital-gifts
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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