Vegard Lende
Principal Engineer at Ascenium Inc
Rogaland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolVegard Lende is a principal software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-quality cross-platform and embedded software, currently consulting for Høglund Marine Automation and leading engineering at Ascenium. He cut his teeth at a fast-growing Norwegian startup that scaled to 35 people across three continents, shipping products to over 80k users and raising significant venture capital—experience that sharpened both his coding and product instincts. Deeply practical, he has shipped rendering and UX engines, cross-platform abstractions, and HMI tools while also improving DevOps and build infrastructure for prominent open-source projects like OpenROAD. Vegard thrives on hard technical problems, strong API/architecture design, and the often-overlooked challenges of communicating across knowledge boundaries. Outside work he explores emulation, graphics programming and functional programming, reflecting a broad curiosity that informs his engineering craft.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at The Norwegian School of Information TechnologyMathematics, Mathematics at University of StavangerInternational Baccalaureate - Diploma programme Natural Sciences, International Baccalaureate - Diploma programme Natural Sciences at St. Olav High School
Github Skills (8)
bash10
docker10
devops10
dockers10
cicd10
ubuntu10
cpp4
tcl4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
OpenROAD's unified application implementing an RTL-to-GDS Flow. Documentation at https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vegard primarily focused on improving the project's build and deployment infrastructure. They modified the `DependencyInstaller.sh` and `DockerHelper.sh` scripts to add support for Ubuntu 22.10 and other Debian-based packaging tools. This included updating the or-tools version and Docker configurations for the new Ubuntu version. Their work also involved renaming and removing duplicate push messages, indicating a focus on streamlining the build and deployment processes.
opendb-databasertlcppgdstcl
nekronos/gbc_rs
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:236 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 years 5 months
gameboyemulatorgameboy-colorrustgameboy-color-emulator
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