Torstein Hønsi
CPO, Founder at Highsoft
Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTorstein Hønsi is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Highsoft with 14 years of experience building industry-leading JavaScript data-visualization products from a small Norwegian town. He created Highcharts (and sister projects Highstock, Highmaps and Highcharts Cloud), growing a one-person project into a profitable company with international customers and a distributed engineering team. Hands-on in the codebase, Torstein remains an active front-end contributor to the famous Highcharts open-source repo, focusing on UX, styling and demo improvements that enhance visual presentation. Based in Vestland, Norway, he blends product leadership with deep technical craftsmanship and a pragmatic founder’s outlook. A father of two, he credits many product ideas to walks and skis in the surrounding mountains, reflecting a creative, environment-driven approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bergen (UiB)
Github Skills (5)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
html9
accessibility8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
highcharts/highcharts
Sep 2011 - Jan 2023
Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4110 reviews, 9631 commits, 5863 PRs in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Torstein's commits primarily involve changes to the Highcharts JavaScript charting framework, specifically focusing on demo samples, styling, and layout improvements. The user made styling adjustments to existing CSS files, added new styling to HTML components, and implemented multi-line ellipsis functionality. The commits show an emphasis on improving the visual presentation and user experience of the chart components within the Highcharts framework.
chartshighchartschartchartingjavascript
highcharts/draggable-points
Sep 2013 - Nov 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 9 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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