Stian Fredrikstad
Team Lead at Edstart
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStian Fredrikstad is a seasoned software engineer and team lead based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building reliable systems across Scala, Kotlin, Ruby and Elm, and a strong grounding in information security. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from NTNU and has progressed from hands-on developer roles to leadership positions at Bekk and Edstart, blending technical depth with people management. Stian has steered security-focused practices and led engineering teams in fintech and education tech contexts, consistently shipping production-grade services. Equally comfortable in functional and object-oriented paradigms, he brings pragmatic architecture instincts informed by early R&D and teaching roles. A practical problem-solver, he pairs academic rigour with a history of mentoring engineers and driving secure, maintainable codebases.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High school Math Physics and IT, High school Math Physics and IT at Brandbu Videregående SkoleNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (6)
audit9
rails8
ruby8
ruby-on-rails7
activerecord7
saml4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bekk/security-christmas
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Secure the Christmas
Contributions:119 commits, 48 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 months
securechristmas
stian-fredrikstad/slides
Feb 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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