Summary
Stian Standahl is a Chief Architect based in Trondheim with 11 years of experience designing pragmatic, customer-focused software and leading teams to higher performance. He blends a Lean mindset with deep technical experience across NLP, financial crime prevention, and Microsoft Dynamics/NAV customization, recently steering architecture at Star Information Systems after four years as Chief Architect at Sticos. An active member of the local agile community, he pairs hands-on coaching and team development with continuous learning in new languages and techniques. His academic background in information retrieval and informatics underpins a data-driven approach to product and tooling decisions. Notably, he has practical experience shipping chatbot/NLP solutions and migrating between product domains, showing comfort with both research-adjacent problems and production constraints. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who prioritizes customer value while eliminating waste and growing teams from within.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at AfNorth International School
Master degree, Information Retrieval, Master degree, Information Retrieval at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian