Tarjei Vassbotn
CEO Founder at Tana
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTarjei Vassbotn is an entrepreneurial technology leader and founder with 13+ years of experience building and scaling product-driven startups and developer ecosystems. As CEO/Founder of Tana and former Global Head of IoT Developer Relations at Google, he blends hands-on product and engineering leadership with strategic C-level experience across hardware, firmware, cloud and developer platforms. He has founded and exited multiple companies—including Norway’s largest fitness site Trening.no, the LinkPulse realtime analytics platform, and the O2 web framework—demonstrating a repeatable ability to create commercially valuable infrastructure and media products. His background includes leading product & engineering for Disruptive Technologies’ end-to-end IoT stack and advising major APAC partners on mission-critical, revenue-generating systems. A seasoned lecturer at NTNU and board member at Nofence, he pairs practical startup grit with academic and governance perspectives. Notably, his career spans both deep technical builds (frameworks and realtime analytics) and high-impact developer relations at global scale.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Cand.Mag/BSc (Not completed) Computer Science and Mathematics, Cand.Mag/BSc (Not completed) Computer Science and Mathematics at Molde University College
English, NorwegianProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
google/kratu
Mar 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 10 months
tarjeiv/speedr
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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