Stian Grytøyr
Owner And Lead Developer at Levelup AS
Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Summary
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RockstarStian Grytøyr is an experienced full-stack developer and product-minded founder with 15 years of building web and mobile systems, currently running Levelup AS and consulting independently from Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. He excels at turning ideas into reliable products, shipping end-to-end solutions using JavaScript stacks (Node, Koa, React/React Native) and scalable backend architectures. His background ranges from systems administration and high-performance ad servers to machine-learning experiments and BI work, giving him a rare mix of ops, backend, and product instincts. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular koa-jwt middleware by adding key features, fixes and dependency updates, demonstrating attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. Friendly and curious by nature, he balances hands-on engineering with running a small technology company and nurturing side products like Notebase and Outkit.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
koajs10
javascript10
middleware10
koa10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
testing10
user-authentication9
authentication9
nodejs9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
koajs/jwt
Jan 2014 - Jun 2018
Koa middleware for validating JSON Web Tokens
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 65 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stian primarily contributed to the koa-jwt middleware, implementing and refining its core functionality. Their work involved adding features like the ability to specify a key for decoded data, as well as sign and verify methods for JWTs. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to thunkification and merge conflicts, enhancing the stability and reliability of the library. The user also updated the library dependencies.
jsonwebtokenkoamiddleware
stiang/EmacsKillRing
Feb 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 4 months
ringemacssublimekillsublime-text
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