Stian Larsen
Senior Cloud Consultant at Arribatec Group
Hamar, Innlandet, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolStian Larsen is a Senior Cloud Consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience spanning Windows systems administration, cloud architecture, and DevOps leadership across Nordic enterprises. He blends deep Windows expertise with a strong personal and professional focus on Linux—co-founding linuxserver.io and contributing roughly 20 Docker containers that collectively reached around one million downloads. Known for practical problem-solving, he has improved container startup scripts, update mechanisms, and permission/network handling for widely used projects like docker-plex. Stian moves comfortably between architect and implementer roles, having led cloud and DevOps teams at companies such as Element Logic and Itera while now consulting at Arribatec. Based in Hamar, Norway, he pairs operational rigor with an enduring passion for the Linux shell and open-source tooling.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sonans IT-Academy Oslo
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (14)
bash10
docker10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
linux9
shell8
automations8
script8
automation8
sh8
scripting8
github8
debian7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
linuxserver/docker-plex
May 2015 - May 2016
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:90 commits, 24 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Stian primarily focused on modifying the container's startup scripts for the `docker-plex` repository, implementing version checks and update mechanisms for the Plex Media Server. They addressed issues related to user and group IDs, network connectivity, and file permissions, which are critical for containerized applications. The user refactored and enhanced the update process, and added more features.
lonix/dotfiles
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 166 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 6 months
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