Tommy Thorsen
Principal Software Engineer, AI at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Thorsen is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on tech leader with two decades of experience building production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises, now focused on large-scale RAG AI at Cognite. He blends deep low-level C/C++ roots—having driven UI framework work used on Nokia Asha devices—with modern cloud-native skills in Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Kubernetes and multi-cloud platforms. A proven tech lead, he has delivered document search, API integration and cloud migration projects under tight deadlines while owning core components end-to-end. He holds a Master’s in Information Security from NTNU and has a lifelong coder’s curiosity that began with an Amiga and Easy AMOS, a thread that still fuels his enjoyment of building practical, high-quality software.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Allmennfag, Allmennfag at Kragerø VGSBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Agder (UiA)Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English, Korean
Github Skills (40)
large-language-models10
image-enhancement10
eddystone10
abstract-syntax-tree9
chatgpt9
javascript9
standardization9
payment-gateway9
parser9
generative-ai9
payment9
code-generation9
react-flow9
code-generator8
maven8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tommythorsen/fingerprints
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Implementation of fingerprint image enhancement filters
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 5 years 6 months
image-enhancement
tommythorsen/webpayments-demo
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 167 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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