Stian Håklev - Product Engineer at Tana

Stian Håklev

Product Engineer at Tana

Hamar, Innlandet, Norway

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Stian Håklev is a Product Engineer with 15 years of experience building collaborative tools and information workflows that help teams work better together and with AI. Currently at Tana, he combines hands-on product development with practical workshops that explore how models like Claude Code change day-to-day engineering practice—favoring prototype-driven experiments over slides. His background spans academic research (post-doc at EPFL) and applied learning engineering, bringing deep expertise in collaborative editing, orchestration, and learning analytics alongside full-stack development (React/Meteor). An active open-source contributor, he has improved the IHaskell Jupyter kernel and other developer-facing tooling, reflecting a focus on robust developer experiences and reproducible workflows. Based in Hamar, Norway, Stian blends research rigor with product instincts to help teams integrate AI in ways that actually work in practice.

15 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at University of Toronto

International Baccalaureate, EE in Italian, International Baccalaureate, EE in Italian at United World College of the Adriatic

Ex. phil and Ex. fac., Philosophy, ethics, history of science, linguistics, Ex. phil and Ex. fac., Philosophy, ethics, history of science, linguistics at University of Oslo

BA Hons, International Development Studies, BA Hons, International Development Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough

Courses, Chinese, Courses, Chinese at Lund University

Norwegian, English, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, hindi (some), russian (some), French

Github Skills (9)

parser10

parsing10

parse10

haskell10

jupyter10

refactor9

refactoring9

cabal9

documentation8

Programming languages (24)

JavaCRustObjective-C++ScalaGoHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

IHaskell/IHaskell

Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

A Haskell kernel for the Jupyter project.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:Stian primarily contributed to the IHaskell project by modifying and improving the core Haskell kernel functionality. They fixed bugs related to string processing, and updated the logic for parsing and evaluating code input. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to cabal constraints for compatibility, added and updated documentation and fixed minor code quality issues. These changes suggest a focus on refining the kernel's behavior and improving user experience.

kerneljupyter-notebookhaskelljupyterjupyter-kernels

houshuang/roam-export

Apr 2020 - Dec 2020

Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months

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