Jan Henrik Gundelsby
Summary
Bridging the gap between academia and practice, focusing on digital transformation, human-AI collaboration, and large-scale agile. Advocating community of practice and lifelong education of consultants. Technology advisory, public speaking, and research dissemination.
Strong knowledge of current and emerging technologies, with over 25 years of experience as a developer, architect, and technology leader. IT strategy, technical leadership for the modern Lean Enterprise, mentoring, DevOps, lean methodology, and autonomous teams.
Published researcher on agile teams, human-AI collaboration, and digital transformation. Public speaking – see http://gundelsby.com
Technical specialties: Building DevOps culture and product organizations in large enterprises. Microservices architecture, technical leadership, team management, large-scale agile, and platform engineering.
Experience
Head of Knowit Research
Knowit | September 2020 – Present
- Bridging academia and practice with a focus on digitalization, large-scale agile, and platformization
- Advocating community of practice and lifetime education for consultants
- Technology advisory, public speaking, and sales/marketing
Oslo Origo | April 2020 – September 2020
- Led the service platform in Oslo municipality
- Enabled innovation through open and transparent self-service platform
- Facilitated open data reuse in public and private sectors
CTO and Principal Engineer / Expert Consultant
Knowit Objectnet | June 2018 – April 2020
- Chief Technology Officer role
- Led DevOps-community
Expert Consultant and DevOps-lead
Knowit Objectnet | January 2012 – April 2015
- Enterprise architecture and tech leadership for Oslo municipality’s central integration platform
Expert Consultant and Manager
Knowit | 2008 – January 2012
- Enterprise architecture for Oslo municipality integration platform
Expert Consultant / Senior Consultant
Unified Consulting | 2003 – 2008
- Enterprise architecture for Oslo municipality integration platform
- Technical project leadership (GWT with Spring/Hibernate)
Senior Consultant
Software Innovation ASA | 2002 – 2003
- Developed Genova 8.0 XML integration
Systems Consultant
Genera AS | 1997 – 2002
- Architected ticketing system for Norwegian Railways (NSB-LISA)
- Technical project lead (Visual Basic 6 projects)
Part-time Consultant
Sysdeco Innovation | 1995 – 1997
- Software development in Systemator 5, C, and C++
- Unix platform porting, scripting (AWK/SED)
Education
Cand. Scient (Master of Science), Computer Science
University of Oslo | 1993 – 2002
Certifications
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Publications