Torbjørn Ruud
Independent Software Consultant at ElementPartner
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTorbjørn Ruud is an independent software consultant based in Oslo with 13 years of experience building scalable, maintainable web systems across research labs, startups, and industrial digitalization projects. He holds a Master's in Programming and System Architecture and blends strong backend performance work—demonstrated by contributions to the vsearch microbiome analysis tool—with full-stack delivery using Node.js, .NET Core, React and PowerBI. Torbjørn has applied algorithmic and systems thinking to industrial problems from digital twins for energy to genetic-algorithm optimization of offshore structures, and his master’s thesis produced a methodology now used in an EU research project. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs, often reducing memory and runtime costs in search algorithms, and enjoys turning research-grade prototypes into production-ready tooling.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Programming and System Architecture, Master, Programming and System Architecture at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)1 år av et bachelorprogram, Economics, 1 år av et bachelorprogram, Economics at Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics10
algorithms10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
torognes/vsearch
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Versatile open-source tool for microbiome analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 releases, 594 commits, 31 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Torbjørn appears to have been focused on improving the performance of the backend search algorithms. They turned off the display of the alignment string, which reduced the output. They also improved the speed of the code by making improvements to the kmer search function and fixing a bug. They also modified the function used for finding the best candidates for alignment and reduced memory used.
chimerametabarcodingmetagenomicsmicrobiome-analysisamplicon
torognes/swipe
Nov 2012 - Jun 2021
Smith-Waterman database searches with inter-sequence SIMD parallelisation
Contributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 9 months
searchessequencesimdsmithsmith-waterman
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