Trond Aarskog
Sr Solution Architect at Microsoft
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTrond Aarskog is a seasoned Sr Solution Architect based in Oslo with over 25 years of IT experience and a decade focused on cloud and business application architecture. He has led architecture and integration initiatives across large Nordic enterprises—most recently at Microsoft and OBOS—modernizing CRM and cloud landscapes with Dynamics 365 and Azure. Known for bridging technical depth and team leadership, he has a strong track record in migration, integration and delivering customer-facing platforms at scale. He also contributes to open-source internationalization efforts, adding Norwegian Bokmål support to Microsoft’s BotFramework-WebChat, reflecting attention to localization in global products. Practical, delivery-oriented and fluent in aligning business needs with cloud-native patterns, he excels at turning complex, multi-system challenges into maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer / Automation, Engineer, Computer / Automation at Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ)Ski VGS
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
bot-framework10
internationalization10
localization10
chatbot9
adaptive-cards7
aspnet-web-api6
dynamics-crm6
azure6
javascript6
bundle6
schema6
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Trond primarily focused on internationalization and localization within the bot framework, specifically adding and updating language translations. They added Norwegian Bokmål and made it the default for Norwegian, including translations for core strings. Furthermore, the user added Norwegian translations for VAT and other UI elements and updated the Norwegian translation package, demonstrating a focus on expanding the framework's international support.
conversational-aibotchatazure-bothighly-customizable
taarskog/pySOMweb
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 32 pushes, 21 tags in 1 year 3 months
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