Terje Sandstrøm
Geek at Hermit AS
Drammen, Norway
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Top SchoolTerje Sandstrøm is a seasoned software engineer and open-source advocate with over three decades of technical experience and 12 years in roles spanning development, consultancy, and leadership. As a long-time Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Development Technologies and team lead/maintainer for the NUnit core and TestAdapters, he blends deep testing and tooling expertise with hands-on coding. He founded and led a startup (Osiris Data AS), later guiding projects at Inmeta and now running Hermit AS where he continues active development and mentorship. Trained as a physicist and electronics engineer, Terje brings analytical rigor and a hardware-minded curiosity to software problems—equally comfortable in test automation, platform debugging, and quirky side projects like model railroads. Notably, his contributions to the widely used NUnit framework include adapter upgrades, platform fixes, and automation improvements that keep .NET testing robust across environments.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Cand Scient / M.Sc, Physics, Cand Scient / M.Sc, Physics at University of OsloEngineer, Electronics, Engineer, Electronics at Oslo and Akershus University College
English, German, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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visual-studio
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unit-testing
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
net10
nunit10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
test-automation10
dotnet9
unit-testing9
dotnet-new9
visual-studio9
test-framework8
tdd8
version-control6
tfs6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 releases, 210 reviews, 3 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Terje's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating test-related files within the NUnit framework. They made changes to the test adapter by upgrading versions, fixing compilation issues, and addressing problems related to test execution environments like Cake. Additional commits included fixes to platform detection and the implementation of tests and support for new versions.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
HermitAudio/hermitaudio.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
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