Yngve Bakken-nilsen is a senior software consultant and co-founder based in Oslo with 14 years of experience building pragmatic .NET and front-end solutions for clients and products. He co-founded Aurum AS and has a background delivering enterprise integrations, custom components, and tooling across finance and web domains dating back to early mobile services work. Comfortable across the stack, Yngve has modern front-end expertise—contributing Angular-specific enhancements to the widely used Storybook project to surface component source and improve documentation workflows. He pairs hands-on implementation skills (C#, Angular, Delphi roots) with a focus on developer productivity and practical automation, exemplified by tools that dramatically sped processes in past roles. Academically grounded in IT, networking and security, he brings an operator’s mindset to product-focused consultancy and open-source collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Certifications .NET 2.0 Framework, Microsoft Certifications .NET 2.0 Framework at Software Scenario AS
Bachelor of Science IT Network and Security, Bachelor of Science IT Network and Security at University of Agder (UiA)
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Yngve primarily focused on enhancing the Angular-based documentation and source code generation within Storybook. They implemented dynamic snippet generation for Angular components, enabling the display of component source code. Key contributions include creating Angular-specific source decorators and modifying existing ones. Additional work involved making the source-language configurable, and adding a global CSF3 renderer for Angular.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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Yngve Bakken-nilsen - Senior Consultant Co-Founder at Aurum AS