Torkel Ödegaard

Co-Founder

Stockholm, Sweden20 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder of Grafana Labs and creator of Grafana OSS.
Led a team of 20+ developers in open source projects.
Expert in continuous integration and automated deployment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in open source development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Open Source DevelopmentTeam LeadershipDashboard DevelopmentConsultingCoachingBackend DevelopmentApi DevelopmentDeployment AutomationAgile DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureClient/server Development

Other Skills

GoReactAngularJSDockerKubernetesGraphiteInfluxDBNode.jsNHibernateASP.NET MVCTDDSOLID practicesCQRSWeb APIGit

About

Currently an open source entrepreneur, working full time on development of the popular Grafana open source metrics and analytics platform. Leading the development of the project and a core team of 20+ people. Using technologies like Go, React, AngularJS, Graphite, Docker & Kubernetes. Available for talk, coaching and workshops on * Grafana and live & trend monitoring * Continuous integration & Automated deployment * Time series databases * Application metrics & instrumentation

Experience

Grafana labs

Co-Founder

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Creator and Project Lead for the open source project Grafana. Running the Swedish devision of Grafana Labs that is focused on Grafana development.

GoReactAngularJSDockerKubernetesOpen Source Development+1

Coding instinct ab

2 roles

OSS Entrepreneur & Grafana project leader and developer

Jul 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 8 mos

Full time work on everything related to the advanced dashboard and graph composer Grafana. Using technologies like AngularJS, Graphite, InfluxDB, Docker, Ansible, Go and Nodejs.
http://grafana.org
https://github.com/grafana/grafana

AngularJSGraphiteInfluxDBDockerGoNode.js+2

Founder & Owner

Mar 2012 – Present · 14 yrs

Specialist consulting services for .NET software development. Additionally I work with coaching, seminars and conference talks on NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, TDD and SOLID practices.

NHibernateASP.NET MVCTDDSOLID practicesConsultingCoaching

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2 roles

Consultant - Developer

Promoted

Mar 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Varying work on the backend distributed CQRS system. Integral in creating the solution architecture for a new internal and public Web API as well as their next gen responsive web application.
Helped & partly led the transition to git version control.
Main developer of the in house developed, and later open sourced, deployment automation tool Asimov Deploy that led to a fundamental shift in how features and changes are developed and deployed.
Introduced Graphite time series system to gain better monitoring and observability of the distributed system. Later also heavily used for business metrics and impact analysis of features and changes. Developed on free time a custom dashboard and frontend for Graphite (named Grafana) that heavily increased the usage of Graphite and data driven development. Grafana has since become the leading Graphite dashboard.

CQRSWeb APIGitGraphiteBackend DevelopmentAPI Development

Consultant - Developer

Mar 2009 – Sep 2009 · 6 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

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Consultant - Solution Architect

Sep 2009 – Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Sweden

Developer & Solution Architect working on a client/server ordering system using command query separation, heavy usage of NHibernate for rich domain model persistence, MSMQ for async processing, WPF using MVVM, and ASP.NET MVC.
Also used Kanban, pair programming, test driven and domain driven design.

NHibernateWPFASP.NET MVCMSMQSolution ArchitectureClient/Server Development

Avega group ab

Developer Consultant

Mar 2009 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs

Agile & Lean inspired developer & solution architect.

Agile MethodologiesLean DevelopmentAgile DevelopmentSolution Architecture

Cybercom sweden east

Developer and Agile Evangelist

Feb 2008 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr

Hitone nordic ab

Lead Developer

May 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Worked mainly as a lead developer for a a big multi-tenant e-business solution. Involved .NET development using ASP.NET, WCF, NHibernate, Castle MonoRail, Castle Windsor.
I was responsible for installation and setup of Cruise Control.NET (an integration and build server), a switch from Source Safe to the SubVersion for source code control. Was a driving force in increasing the knowledge in agile practices and test-driven development. Held workshops and presentations on AOP (Aspect-oriented programming), test-driven development, Castle MonoRail (Model-View-Controller web development framework for ASP.NET).