Tarjei Huse is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building RESTful and web applications in PHP, Java and Python, now leading a team at KSAT in Tromsø. He combines systems-level thinking in distributed systems and image-recognition/ML with hands-on development, having driven digital product delivery as Head of Digital Development at Gotime for over a decade. Tarjei is an active open-source contributor across Symfony and React ecosystems, contributing practical fixes and feature enhancements to well-known projects like Kunstmaan CMS and draft-js-plugins. He has a strong backend pedigree—improving DoctrineExtensions’ SQLite support and modernizing FOSCommentBundle—paired with front-end craftsmanship in editor tooling. Known for smoothing deployment and integration pain points, he brings pragmatic architecture and a focus on observable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Oslo
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tarjei primarily focused on updating the codebase to support FOSRestBundle 2.0. This involved modifying the `ThreadController.php` file to remove deprecated functionalities such as `RouteRedirectView` and also updating HTTP constants. Additionally, they refactored the code to utilize local constants for HTTP codes. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and updating the backend logic of the comment bundle.
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 27 PRs, 63 comments in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tarjei contributed to the Kunstmaan CMS by fixing a bug in the PagePartGenerator related to file path handling. They added functionality to emit events on pagepart add, edit, and delete actions within the admin bundle. Furthermore, they addressed an issue in the RedirectBundle by implementing a fix for UTF-8 redirects and updated the admin list functionality to allow sorting by associations. They also addressed a frontend issue where JQuery needed to load before CKEditor and improved the image handling in the editor.
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