Thor Johansen
Chief Technology Officer at Verji Tech AS
Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThor Johansen is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of executive experience bridging R&D (both hardware and software) and business strategy to bring complex products to market. He has led product and technical teams across Norwegian tech companies—shifting from hands-on analog/digital electronics and low-level software to scaling web and education platforms. Comfortable coding from assembly up to web stacks, Thor pairs deep technical fluency with commercial acumen developed through roles as Chief Product Officer and Technical Director. He excels where cross-disciplinary insight matters most—translating hardware constraints into software architecture and marketable product features. Based in Norway with a BS in Computer Engineering, he often operates as the technical conscience in leadership teams, keeping long-term strategy grounded in engineering realities.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, Electronics at Gjøvik University College (HiG)BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at California State University, Chico
Norwegian
Github Skills (125)
authentication10
collaboration10
auth10
matrix10
permission10
acl10
abac10
rbac10
authz10
cas10
authorization10
spec10
ios10
kaios10
deprecated10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
verji/matrix-js-sdk
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript
Contributions:16 PRs, 42 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
verji/element-web
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
Contributions:15 PRs, 49 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
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