Summary
Vegard Økland is a founding engineer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building resilient web platforms across startups and large media and industrial tech companies from Oslo. He combines hands-on front-end expertise (TypeScript, React, Svelte Kit) with architecture, security and performance leadership, and has repeatedly scaled tracking, analytics and data-integrated apps in Prod. Vegard has driven cross-team delivery as a staff/lead engineer at Schibsted and Cognite, shaping SDKs, tracking systems and cloud-native deployments on GCP/Azure/Kubernetes. He studied computer science at NTNU and brings a practical ML/data-science background that informs data-driven product decisions beyond the UI layer. Known for tackling ambiguous technical challenges, he often bridges product, devops and security concerns to get features shipped. Currently he’s applying that blend of product-minded engineering and systems thinking as a founding engineer at Arcline AI.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) / Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian