Vidar Hokstad
Director Consultant at Hokstad Consulting Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVidar Hokstad is a seasoned Director Consultant and fractional CTO based in London with 17 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native, scalable backend systems and operational change across startups and enterprise environments. He blends deep DevOps and architecture expertise—AWS, Docker, Terraform—with pragmatic software development in Ruby, Python and JavaScript to turn strategy into reliable production platforms. As a consultant and AI/LLM evaluation expert he now assesses model alignment and security, bringing applied ML oversight to product and operations teams. His career spans founding and technical leadership roles from ISP startup and registrar systems to billing at Yahoo Europe and building investment and CRM platforms for VC workflows. Vidar is comfortable moving between board-level strategy and late-night incident fixes, with a track record of designing resilient systems and mentoring engineering teams through growth and scaling. He pairs an MSc in Computer Science with a practical bias for measurable outcomes, often uniting product needs and infrastructure constraints into pragmatic delivery roadmaps.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc CCI Computer Science, MSc CCI Computer Science at The Open UniversityN/A Computer Science, N/A Computer Science at University of Oslo
English, Norwegian, French, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (83)
rubocop10
synthesizer10
health-check10
ruby10
highlighter10
speech10
speech-synthesizer10
ecosystem10
audio10
golang10
component-based10
code-highlighter10
docker10
cdb10
pygments10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vidarh/rubyterm
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
vidarh/ACE
Jul 2010 - Nov 2012
Contributions:195 commits in 2 years 4 months
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