Vidar Grasdal
AI Automation
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolVidar Grasdal is an AI automation and platform engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable developer workflows, internal AI tools, and cloud-native systems that remove manual toil and accelerate product delivery. He has driven AI-powered features and platform services at Microsoft (including work showcased by Satya Nadella) and led end-to-end platform transformation at Vimond, where he cut release cycles, achieved five‑nines+ uptime for billions of streams, and launched award-winning products. Vidar combines hands-on full‑stack prototyping (Next.js, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Java, AWS, Terraform) with strategic architecture and cost optimization, having halved AWS spend and dramatically improved developer experience and NPS. Now at Quora he focuses on automating high‑impact processes and building internal AI systems to scale reliability and team capacity—an engineer who blends product sensibility with operational rigor and a knack for turning repetitive work into autonomous systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at Western Norway University of Applied SciencesICT operations I, ICT operations I at Bjørgvin VGSCore: Credential of Readiness, Core: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School OnlineDigital Media Design, Digital Media Design at Akademiet FagutdanningNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Danish, Swedish, English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (35)
storage9
aws-s39
react8
aws-amplify8
aws8
barrage8
amplify8
cloud-services8
rss8
react-native7
nodejs7
javascript7
torrent7
aws-apigateway7
sst7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vimond/vimond-wowza-plugin-examples
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year
vimond/.github
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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