Summary
Stian Øvrevåge is a seasoned cloud and infrastructure engineer with 12+ years of experience who blends hands-on technical depth with leadership as an engineering manager, product owner and team lead focused on developer tooling. Currently building a team to boost productivity for 200+ engineers at Signicat, he specializes in managing and reducing complexity across sprawling organizational and technical landscapes. His work ranges from deep platform debugging—uncovering GKE latency root causes—to pragmatic decommissioning of legacy systems and rapid-cost-visibility solutions that inform decisions from developers to the C-suite. As founder of Chipmunk Technology and an active senior consultant, he delivers high-impact short- and medium-term engagements in SRE, DevOps and cloud optimization. He also invests and governs through Divest AS and board roles, bringing an operator’s mindset to strategy and finance. An unusual detail: he holds a private pilot license, reflecting a methodical, safety-first approach to complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Private Pilot License (PPL-A), Private Pilot License (PPL-A) at Sola Flyklubb
Databases (10SP), Databases (10SP) at University of Agder (UiA)
Norwegian, English, Spanish