Vegard Skjefstad
Back End Developer at Nav
Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVegard Skjefstad is a seasoned back-end developer and architect with 14 years of experience building large-scale systems in Java, Kotlin, PHP and TypeScript across public and private sectors in Norway. He has progressed from hands-on Java developer roles at NRK to founding a media-tech startup and leading architecture and delivery as manager and senior consultant at Bekk and ExperisNorway. Vegard combines deep technical craftsmanship with practical leadership—acting as tech lead, architect and trusted adviser while championing lean, autonomous teams that ship end-to-end to production. Currently focused on hybrid Kotlin development at NAV, he frequently engages beyond code in system design, development methodology and organizational dynamics. His background includes early work in mobile video streaming (Rubberduck/Norigin) and a Master’s in Computer Science from NTNU, reflecting both entrepreneurial risk-taking and academic rigor. Pragmatic, outspoken and team-oriented, he balances delivering robust back-end systems with shaping how teams work.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Agder (UiA)Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (46)
kotlin10
android-client10
fdroid10
pixelfed10
microblogging10
mastodon10
android10
pact8
wordpress-plugin8
social-networking8
wordpress8
nexus8
sage8
sonatype8
jekyll7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vskjefst/independent-publisher
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
wordpresswordpress-themefocusedreaderwordpress-plugin
vskjefst/c-sharp-for-java-developers
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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