Terje Torkelsen
Independent Consultant at Torkelsen Tech AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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SeniorTerje Torkelsen is an independent consultant and platform engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, primarily using .NET, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure and AWS. He specializes in making complex cloud environments simple and reliable—designing automated infrastructure-as-code, observability stacks, and developer portals (Backstage) that remove friction for teams. As a former operative tech lead, he combines practical coding with governance, cost control and security practices to help organizations migrate and operate securely in the cloud. Terje values effortless user and developer experiences, favoring pragmatic solutions over unnecessary complexity—hence his preference for tools that “just work.” He contributes patterns and tooling in open source to share improvements and accelerate adoption. Outside of greenfield systems he has deep experience modernizing legacy .NET workloads for containerization and scalable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (200)
parser10
authentication10
grafana10
terraform10
security10
k8s10
monitoring10
thin10
azure10
versioning10
graph10
router10
vector10
azure-kubernetes-service10
kernel10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
2ttech/torkelsen-tech-web
Mar 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
avinor/tau
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Tau is a thin wrapper on top of terraform to manage multiple deployments, dependencies and secrets.
Contributions:6 releases, 146 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
dependenciesdevopsterragrunttauthin
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