Sveinung Bakken
Vice President Of Engineering, Founding Engineer at ZEN OCEANS
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSveinung Bakken is a senior engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on experience building mobile platforms and backend systems, currently serving as Sr. Director of Engineering at Arlo Technologies following the acquisition of Aloe Care Health. He combines deep multi-platform expertise—especially Android and iOS—with strong practice in CI/CD, automated testing, and agile delivery to scale product teams and shipping velocity. His background spans consumer and high-scale social apps (Instagram), streaming (iHeartRadio), and startup product leadership, giving him a balanced perspective on both rapid iteration and production quality. Skilled in data analysis and observability (R, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Hive, Shiny), he drives data-informed decisions and quality metrics across engineering organizations. Known for implementing company-wide scrum tooling and continuous delivery pipelines, he often acts as the bridge between UX, mobile, and backend teams. Based in Oslo, he also advises startups and brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach shaped by both enterprise and founder-stage experience.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Computer Science, Graduate, Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (76)
python10
micropython10
embedded10
android-sdk10
hockeyapp10
sdk9
cpython9
encryption9
kotlin9
oauth9
microcontroller9
android9
static-analysis8
cpp8
symmetric8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sveinungkb/ios-ota-buddy
Jun 2012 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
command-line-toolsupportedaidotaswift
button/button-android
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Button's SDK for Android.
Contributions:66 commits, 7 PRs, 165 pushes in 1 year 2 months
androidsdkbuttonkotlinandroid-sdk
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