Sondre Gundersen
DevOps Engineer at Favrit
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSondre Gundersen is a DevOps Engineer based in Oslo with nine years of experience combining backend development, test automation, and infrastructure work across startups and enterprise environments. He recently moved into a DevOps role at Favrit after four years as a software developer at Otovo, bringing practical production experience and a strong focus on reliability. An active open-source contributor, Sondre has improved test quality and fixed nuanced bugs in notable Python projects like Litestar and Polyfactory, often tackling edge cases such as decimal handling and ORMAR integrations. His background in finance (MSc) and business administration gives him a pragmatic, metrics-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs and automation. Colleagues value his attention to testing and maintainability—he routinely replaces broad fixes with targeted type-hinting and linting improvements that reduce technical debt. Outside work he’s the kind of engineer who surfaces obscure bugs in libraries, turning small fixes into bigger stability wins for downstream users.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree MSc in Finance, Master’s Degree MSc in Finance at BI Norwegian Business SchoolExchange Semester Master's, Exchange Semester Master's at University of ZurichExchange Semester Bachelor's , Exchange Semester Bachelor's at Copenhagen Business SchoolBachelor’s Degree Business Administration and Management, Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration and Management at University of Essex
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (17)
decimals10
pytest10
python10
testing10
bigdecimal10
typehinting10
api10
asgi10
type-checking10
pydantic10
decimal10
asyncio9
monetary9
flake9
linting8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
py-moneyed/py-moneyed
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Provides Currency and Money classes for use in your Python code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sondre primarily focused on improving the codebase quality and maintainability. They upgraded type hints throughout the project, enhancing code readability and facilitating static analysis. Additionally, they refactored code by replacing blanket `noqa` directives with file-specific handling. The user also added several linting tools.
python-codepythoncurrencyfinancemoney
litestar-org/polyfactory
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Simple and powerful factories for mock data generation
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sondre primarily contributed to the `polyfactory` project by addressing issues related to decimal handling and the integration of ormar models. Their work involved fixing bugs in decimal constraint validation, resolving length calculations, and implementing a failing test case. They also added support for ormar string fields within the factory, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's support for database integrations.
pythongenerationfactorydataclassespydantic
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