Biography

Systems engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex IT infrastructures. Skilled in analyzing system requirements and developing solutions. Expertise in network architecture, virtualization and cloud computing.

Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to continuous learning and professional development. Dedicated to leveraging technology to improve efficiency, productivity, and user experience.

Absolutely love automation and standardization using technologies such as Ansible, PowerShell and OpenTofu/Terraform. This love has led to the development of some published Ansible roles. I am a huge advocate for open source, both due to its collaborative nature, being a great source to learn new things, but also the fact that it drives so much of the technology we surround ourselves with.

During my time in IT, I’ve had the privilege to work as a technical lead with large companies such as Skanska Global, Storebrand and Rambøll. I have also had the pleasure of being an integral part of training and supporting partner networks.

In my spare time I love to dabble with amateur photography, mostly landscape photography, starry skies and deep sky photography. Also, a huge movie nerd, who likes to wind down after a long day in my home theatre.

Fun fact: not a single day goes by without me thinking of a quote and/or scene from Monty Python.

Experiences

Miscellaneous roles

February 2014 - Present (10 years 1 month)
ayfie AS, Oslo, Norway

Systems Engineer → Senior Systems Engineer → IT Manager
Planning and performing installations of in-house developed software to customers. Responsible for training partner network resources. Performing support for both end customers and partner network. Responsible for IT, from hardware to software. On Premise and Cloud resources in AWS, Azure, OVH and DigitalOcean. Maintaining Office 365 tenants and services. Liaison with the development team.

Product Consultant

June 2008 - January 2014 (5 years 7 months)
SystemPartner International AS, Oslo, Norway

Planning and performing installations of software and hardware used in the hospitality industry. Performing on-site hardware installations, and on-site training of staff. Providing support for customers. Assisting the IT Manager with the operation of internal systems and network.

Projects

Some of my projects that I have developed and maintain. View GitHub for more projects.

wp2hugo - A Python application that converts a WordPress WXR backup to Hugo.
ansible-role-pihole-doh - Ansible role to deploy Pihole using Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS.
ansible-role-ohmyzsh - Ansible role to deploy and configure OhMyZsh.
ansible-role-nvchad - Ansible role to install and configure neovim with a default configuration and required APT and Python packages.

Languages and Tools

Python PowerShell GNU%20Bash zsh perl Apache Apache Solr Nginx Markdown Windows Linux macOS Debian Ubuntu RedHat PostgreSQL MySQL Microsoft SQL Server MongoDB Redis Icinga Active Directory Azure AD Office 365 Docker Amazon AWS Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Cloudflare DigitalOcean VMware Git Ansible GitHub GitHub Actions GitLab Jenkins Atlassian Jira Vim Neovim Visual Studio Code WordPress Hugo Adobe Lightroom Classic Adobe Photoshop

References

References available upon request.