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Audun Solemdal

Azure and DevOps consultant

Languages

  • Norwegian (Native)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Spanish (Basic)

Interests

  • Chess
  • Technology
  • IT

Career Profile

I work with DevOps and Azure. Special interest for cloud computing. I see myself as a good all-rounder, and enjoy seeing the bigger picture together with using technical skills. Microsoft Partner since May 2022

Experiences

Cloud consultant

June 2022 - Present
Solom AS

Contract work for The Norwegian Environment Agency. Member of the CCoE / Cloud platform team. My main responsibility is further development of the Kubernetes (AKS) portion of the platform.

CSP indirect reseller

May 2022 - Present
Solom AS

CSP indirect reseller through Arrow Electronics. Contact me if you are interested in having a CSP!

DevOps consultant

Sept 2021 - June 2022
Solom AS

Sub-contracting DevOps consultant for Helsedirektoratet, department Helseregistrene

Formerly contracted under “Solemdal Consulting”

Cloud & DevOps consultant

Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Solom AS

DevOps and Azure consultant for Elekt in my spare time

  • Azure
  • DevOps

Formerly contracted under “Solemdal Consulting”

Consultant

June 2019 - Aug 2021
Bouvet ASA, Trondheim

DevOps and Azure consultant for Equinor

  • Azure
  • Kubernetes & cloud native
  • IT operations (Linux and Windows)
  • .NET and database development
  • Task automation

Projects

All projects since September 2021 are done through Solom.

Artsdatabanken - Cloud assistance.
May 2023 - current
As Miljødirektoratet has responsibility for Artsdatabanken, I assist with cloud related tasks for them. This mostly involves Azure advisory, improving security, developer experience on Azure
Miljødirektoratet - Cloud Platform team
June 2022 - current
Main responsiblity is further development and ease of usage for AKS in Miljødirektoratet's Cloud Platform. I also assist with continious improvement of the platform in general.
Helsedirektoratet - KPR2024
Sep 2021 - June 2022
Freelance project. Solving problems within the Azure and DevOps realms for Helsedirektoratet.
Elekt AS - Elisa
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
Freelance project. Solving problems within the Azure and DevOps realms for Elekt AS.
Equinor - Centuries
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Azure, ASP.NET Core development, Entity Framework Core, Azure SQL DB, SOX Audit automation, Azure DevOps, Terraform. Centuries co-locates production estimates for various plants in Equinor, and is used both for historical data and data forecasts. The project also provided me experience working with audits for sensitive financial data under the SOX act
Equinor - SDP Tools
June 2019 - Aug 2021
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, GitOps. Maintaining apps running on internal infrastructure. Migrations from on-prem and AWS to Azure and Azure AKS. Our Kubernetes infrastructure is open source, available: https://github.com/equinor/sdp-flux
Equinor - Toolbox Admin
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Admin for Equinor's GitHub, Gitlab, Azure DevOps, Snyk (IT security tool), Power Platform. From time to time I assist the Toolbox admin team with technical expertise. Implementing new products and features providing value to Equinor's 1000+ developers.
Equinor - iPlant
Sept 2019 - Dec 2020
.NET development, Windows server. Maintenance and further development of apps fetching sensor data from multiple Equinor plants. I've lead a pilot to migrate the service from depending on on-prem infrastructure and OracleDB to using a timeseries API running in Azure.
Equinor - CES to Omnia
October 2019 - December 2019
Advisory role on how to migrate a container based platform from Amazon to Equinor's data platform on Azure.

Certifications

Certifications taken in my spare time. You can validate my certifications by clicking the name of each certification

  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert (2020-)
  • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (2020-)
  • Azure Developer Associate (2021-)
  • Azure Security Engineer Associate (2021-)
  • Azure Administrator Associate (2019-)

    • Education

    BSc in IT operations

    2016 - 2019
    NTNU

    Involves subjects such as operating and maintenance of computer systems (Windows and Linux), cloud services, system development, information security, virtual machines and programming.

    My bachelor’s thesis was titled “Modernization of a business critical integration platform using containers in Azure Cloud”. The project was part of a larger, actual customer project assigned to Innofactor’s department in Trondheim, who are specialists in Azure Cloud.

    Skills & Proficiency


    Cloud


    Azure

    Docker & Kubernetes

    GitOps / Infrastructure as Code



    Personal skills


    Presentations

    Leadership

    Teamwork


    Infrastructure


    Windows

    Linux

    SQL


    Miscellaneous


    Powershell

    IT Security

    Bash


    Development


    .NET development

    Web development (HTML, CSS, JS)

    Rest APIs