Tor Linnerud
CTO Co-Founder at ReferDB
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTor Linnerud is a pragmatic CTO and serial founder with 18 years of experience building and operating web applications, currently leading ReferDB, a referral platform for mental health professionals. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Docker, and Linux expertise with a knack for shaping small, high-impact engineering teams to ship reliable products. Previously he founded Decibel and served as Technical Director at AlphaSights, bringing enterprise-grade delivery discipline to startups. Based in New York, he favors pragmatic tooling and infrastructure that minimize operational friction while enabling rapid iteration. Tor’s work reflects a focus on real-world problems—connecting trusted human networks for better health outcomes—rather than chasing buzzword tech. His background from University of Bath through long tenures at both startup and corporate environments gives him a rare blend of entrepreneurial grit and production-hardened engineering.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at University of BathIB Diploma, IB Diploma at International Baccalaureate Nesbru vgs
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Github Skills (85)
iban10
validation9
delete-files9
ruby9
validate9
atom-plugin9
autoformat8
rails8
scss-mixins8
mvc7
campfire7
ruby-on-rails7
dyndns7
html7
mdns7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
toreriklinnerud/clean-files
Apr 2009 - Mar 2018
Executable to delete files fitting certain criteria, useful to delete old backups
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 9 years
delete-filesfittingcriteriaexecutablebackups
toreriklinnerud/atom-rubyfmt
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Atom plugin to autoformat Ruby code with Rubyfmt
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
atom-pluginatomrubyautoformat
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