Ole Christian Rynning

8th February 1982

description

Ole Christian is Master of Informatics from University of Oslo 2006. He is an enthusiast engaged in working efficiently and smart.

Among major fields of interest are programming of both frontend- and core applications. He has both breadth and depth in knowledge and experience with development of web, web-services, databases, integration, automatization, concurrency, scaling and deployment. He also has experience with maintenance and operations including automatization, virtualization, high-availability, scaling, networking, OS, debugging, tuning, et. al. in UNIX-based development and production environments.

Prior to starting Uppercase AS, he was a consultant in BEKK, Research Assistant at the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, UiO, and a Developer in Primetime AS.

Ole Christian thrives in value-driven agile teams sporting high velocity and complex domains. He enjoys working closely with both business and technology experts.

Relevant Work Experience

Jul 2012 -
Programmer / Partner, Uppercase AS, Oslo, Norway
Nov 2010 - Jul 2012
Head of Dynamic Languages Group, Bekk Consulting AS, Oslo, Norway
Jul 2009 - Jul 2012
Senior Consultant / Senior Developer, Bekk Consulting AS, Oslo, Norway
Jan 2008 - Jul 2009
Consultant / Systems Developer, Bekk Consulting AS, Oslo, Norway
Jul 2006 - Aug 2007
Research Assistant, Norwegian Centre for Computers and Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Jan 2005 - Nov 2007
Programmer and systems administrator, Primetime AS, Oslo, Norway

Education

2006 - 2006
1. section Law school, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2005 - 2007
Master of Information Technology. Computers & Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2002 - 2004
Bachelor of Information Technology. Network and Software Development, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

Technical Profile

Programming Languages

Object-oriented, Functional, Imperative, Dynamic/Static Type Systems, Strong/Weak Type Systems, Rule-based languages. Creation of Grammars, Parsers, Lexers, Compilers and DSLs

Expert
Ruby, Java, C, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Bash.
Advanced
Clojure, Scala, C#, Perl, PHP.
Basic
Go, C++, Fortran, Haskell, Erlang, ML, Prolog et al.

Platforms/OS

Expert
Mac OSX, Linux, UNIX (Solaris, BSD & HPUX)
Advanced
Windows

Technologies

Web-technologies/Frontend
Expert in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, REST, XML-*, RDF-*, OWL, Topic Maps, Semantic Web, much more.
Integration
Enterprise Integration Patterns extensive experience with mapping and anti-corruption layers in different contextes. REST, WS-death*, RMI...
Some popular Java frameworks I have vast experience with
Unfiltered, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Lift, Jersey, Spring MVC, Camel, PicoContainer, Spring, Guice, JSR311, JEE, JPA, EJB, JAXB, Hibernate, Cucumber, FitNesse, and many others + plenty of libraries.
Web and Application Servers
HAproxy, nginx, F-5 BigIP, Apache httpd, Jetty, Glassfish, Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle WebLogic, OC4J and IBM WebSphere
Messaging
ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, mQseries and Sonic Messaging Server.
Databases
MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Memcached and Oracle. Also some experience with: Neo4J, CouchDB, MS SQL, DB2, Redis, Voldemort and Cassandra.

Methodology and practises

eXtreme Programming (XP), agile (Lean, Scrum, ++). SICP ;) Test- and Behavior-driven development/design (TDD/BDD), Domain-Driven Design (DDD), OOAD, etc.

Project Experience

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Feb 2010 - Jul 2012
Project
Delivery
Role
Lead Developer
Technology
Linux, Solaris, BigIP, Puppet, Chef, Several relational and non-relational DBs, Ruby, Java, several different Java Application Servers.
Description
Architected and developed automated solution for provisioning configuration of environments for enterprise-wide projects. Used to deploy and manage software systems throughout their life cycle. Wrote software (Ruby) for automated and managed delivery used by several teams and projects. Fully automated deployment, zero-time deployment, A/B testable infrastructure.

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Aug 2010-Jul 2012
Project
Booking
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, Ruby, Spring, Spring MVC, Jersey, Jackson, JAXB, Hibernate, Jetty, Mockito, JUnit, Cucumber, MySQL, MongoDB
Description
Development of product ordering (packages, transports, cargo, express) both nationally and internationally. Integrations with accounting, orders, several different transport systems, tracking and other support systems.

Large government-owned enterprise within postal distribution

Period
Dec 2010 (1 month)
Project
Route
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, WebSphere, AIX, SAS, Oracle
Description
Participated in crisis-team for a failed deployment of a major software project (5 years of development) delivery from third-parties. Participated as specialist for tuning, debugging and scaling. Re-wrote several pieces of buggy concurrent code.

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Jan 2010-Aug 2010 (7 months, greenfield) - Jul 2012
Project
Reporting
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, Spring, Spring JDBC, MySQL, Oracle DB, DB2, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Access Manager, Jetty
Description
Development of extranet for B2B reports (datawarehousing). Integrations with accounting, production, manufacturing, transport systems and realtime eventbased logistics systems.

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Feb 2010 - Jun 2010 (4 months development) - Jul 2012
Project
Mobile Tracking
Role
Lead Developer
Technology
REST, JSON, iOS, Android, Hudson/Jenkins, ...
Description
Development of (native) mobile Tracking & tracing applications. Architected APIs into the infrastructure supporting the mobile devices and managed teams of interns.

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
May 2009-Jan 2010 (maintenance: Jul 2012)
Project
Tracking
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, Spring, Spring WS, Spring JDBC, JUnit, OC4J, FitNesse, Hudson/Jenkins, ...
Description
Development of new Tracking & tracing application across several transport and logistics specialists (daughter companies).

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Feb 2009-Aug 2009 (8 months active) - Jul 2012 (maintenance)
Project
Supply Chain Management
Role
(Lead) Developer
Technology
Java, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, Spring Security, Camel, JUnit, PostgreSQL, Cucumber, EDIfact, XML, ANSI, ..., Hudson/Jenkins
Description
Developed international cargo tracking pilot integrating with four international agents, three freighters both over sea and air. Extremely heavy integrations project across borders and continents. The system enables customers to track status of large purchase orders to several vendors. Pilot integrated with two major customers in the oil-sector.

Large Nordic enterprise within logistics and transportation

Period
Jun 2009-Jul 2012
Project
Price Quoting Service / APIs
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, JUnit, FitNesse, JSON, WS-*, Hudson/Jenkins
Description
Price quoting and coverage service for package and cargo products in the Nordic region. 3 months active development, 3 years maintenance of products, etc

Norwegian Government department

Period
Aug 2008-Jan 2009 (5 months greenfield)
Project
Legal Information System
Role
Developer
Technology
Java, JUnit, RDF, OWL, XML/XSL, JavaScript, Ruby, RSpec, Enonic Vertical Site, MySQL, Hudson, Tomcat
Description
Legal Information System used by largest Norwegian govt. entity covering legal cases, statutes, legislation, guidelines. Heavily interconnected data in large quantities.

Norwegian Government department

Period
Feb 2008-Aug 2008 (6 months legacy brownfield)
Project
Self-administration Systems
Role
Developer
Technology
Java/J2EE, WebServices (Axis), Spring, Struts, Struts2, Hibernate, EJB, Maven 2, Enonic Vertical Site, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, Oracle DB, CruiseControl, Ant, Maven2 m.m.
Description
Simplified, replaced and consolidated several legacy systems developed for years by dozens of developers from different companies. Developed new self-administration features for users of the government department services (over 550 000 users). Both backend and front-end. Transferred code from ClearCase, Promotion and CVS to Subversion, and setup of the continuous integration architecture. Deleted far more code than I wrote.

Large mutual investment/financing corporation

Period
Jan 2008-Feb 2008 (1 month)
Description
Calculators and finance visualizations of loans, realtime status/charts of funds and mutual funds.

Backstage / Manual Design / BY:LARM / Øya

Period
Okt 2006-Dec 2006 (3 months)
Description
Ruby/Rails planning component integrated into a booking and event system used by most major music festivals in Norway.

Politiets Fellesforbund (Union of Norwegian Police)

Period
Apr 2006-Aug 2006 (3 months)
Description
Rails app handling information system for union-members such as legal, offers, benefits, booking of cabins, news, ...

Fund brokerage/investment/finance company

Period
Jun 2005-Okt 2006 (4 months)
Description
Java Web application for purchasing/investing in funds.

Norwegian Association for Allergics and Asthmatics

Period
Mar 2005-Jun 2005 (4 months)
Description
Ruby / Flash app for reporting (visualization) of actual and forecasts in pollen-levels. Used by media, allergics and weather reporting services.

Primetime

Period
Jan 2005-Aug 2006 (1.5 years)
Project
Primetime
Role
Developer
Technology
Java (and a little bit of C)
Description
Media platform solution with realtime streaming component and a Java-based media CMS (videos, streams, images, news). Several media-customers.

Microsoft / Bond University work experience program.

Period
Aug 2003-Nov 2003 (3 months++)
Project
Spotlight
Role
Developer (Intern)
Technology
C#.NET, SharePoint 2003
Description
University services integration project. Developed smart documents for various courses, deliverables, notes, and a web-service for searching referencing Library records from within MS Office. Project was sponsored by Microsoft and won the APAC region contest for Office 2003 Integration and was used in accordance with their SharePoint Launch.

Honorary, Volunteering, Community

2008-
Program Committee JavaZone 2009-2011. Also developed web sites and conference system.
Aug 2011-
Organizer Oslo Socially Functional (Functional Programming meetup).
Oct 2007-Aug 2011
Assistant Organizer Oslo XP-meetup (second largest meetup in Europe)
Oct 2007-Jul 2012
Arranger of Smidig (Norwegian for Agile) 2007-2011, Program Committee, Development of web sites and conference system.
2009
Leader group JavaZone 2010
2003
ACM Student Chapter Chairman at Bond University and Director and Systems administrator at IT Students Association.

Presentations and Publications

2011
Deklarativ konfigurasjonsstyring med Puppet [Declarative Configuration Management with Puppet] (presentation - JavaZone 2011)
Continuous Delivery (workshop - ROOTS 2011)
Three simple techniques for Continuous Delivery (lightning talk - ROOTS 2011)
Kontinuerlige Leveranser på Bring [Continuous Delivery at Bring (It's easy to release every day)] (presentation - GoOpen 2011)
Professional development with Ruby (three part course, NTNU)
2010
Scala & Lift (one-day course/workshop)
Deployment workshop (workshop)
TDD in JavaScript (internal course)
Beyond Estimation (lightning talk - XP2010)
JRubyfiser din java-app [JRubify your Java-app] (internal presentation)
2009
En introduksjon til Scala-test [An introduction to Scala-Test] (presentation)
Rails v3 Contracts & Interfaces (presentation)
Ruby-utvikling med Google App Engine [Ruby-development with GAE] (internal presentation)
CouchDB og Neo4J - Alternativ persistering [CouchDB and Neo4J - Alternative persistence] (presentation)
2008
CouchDB og Neo4J - Alternativ persistering [CouchDB and Neo4J - Alternative persistence] (presentation)
Groovy & Grails for Ruby og Java-utviklere [Groovy & Grails for Ruby and Java developers] (one-day course)
Ruby for nybegynnere [Ruby for beginners] (half day course/workshop)
Alle prosjekter trenger en drifter [Your project need ops] (lightning talk - Smidig 2008)
2007
Juristopia - Semantic Wiki for Legal Information, CompLex 2008/03 (research publication)

Awards and Honors

2012
Farmandsprisen - Nominee (team/project)
2011
Gulltaggen - Bronze (team/project)
2008,2009,2011
Farmandsprisen - Gold (team/project)
2007
Gulltaggen - Gold (team/project)
2003
Bond University - Vice-Chancellor's list of academic excellence
2003
1st (shared with one other team): Microsoft - Project: Spotlight. University Innovation/Development Competition, Australia/Asia
2003
5th: ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Regional finals: Australia/Asia (on team with two others)
2002
Bond University - Dean's list of academic excellence