Steffen Bjerkenås
Principal Solution Architect at Microsoft
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolSteffen Bjerkenås is a Principal Solution Architect based in Vienna with a track record of helping large enterprises realize value from the GitHub platform, AI tooling, and CI/CD practices. With six years focused on developer platforms at GitHub and Microsoft and prior experience driving global architecture at Allianz, he blends hands-on integration skills (Node.js, GitHub Actions, REST/GraphQL, Kubernetes) with strategic advisory work for 5k+ developer organizations. He’s skilled at designing GitHub-based automation, Copilot adoption programs, and InnerSource/DevOps transformations while also building custom apps and workflows to improve developer experience. Steffen’s background in military IT and multinational NATO collaboration adds disciplined systems thinking and secure, interoperable design to his enterprise architecture approach. Known for translating complex technical trade-offs up to C-level and coaching distributed delivery teams, he pairs tactical delivery experience with a strong focus on adoption and stakeholder alignment.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Telematics, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Telematics at Forsvarets høgskole (FHS)Master’s Degree Information Science Business Informatics, Master’s Degree Information Science Business Informatics at Utrecht University
Norwegian, English, nederlandsk, German, French
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Github Skills (36)
github-issues10
github10
github-token10
javascript9
gitbook9
docsify9
gh-extension8
graphql8
javascript-action8
ruby8
python7
linting6
versioning6
eclipse6
period6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
githubuniverseworkshops/workshop-automate-your-workflow
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:16 commits in 1 month
stebje/jord
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
🌲 A GitHub Action that helps move workloads into greener time periods
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 4 months
green-softwareperiodsworkloadscarbon-aware-sdkcarbonhack22
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