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Curriculum Vitae – Jan Henrik Gundelsby

Contact Information

Name Jan Henrik Gundelsby
Professional Title Head of Knowit Research · Part-time Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Oslo
Email janhenrik@gundelsby.com
Website https://gundelsby.com

Professional Summary

Head of Knowit Research and part-time Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Oslo. I study how organizations adopt AI agents in software development, and help them do it. Bridging academia and practice on human-AI collaboration, agentic software engineering, technical debt, and large-scale agile.

Over 30 years as a developer, architect, and technology leader, from microservices and DevOps in Oslo municipality to building and running agentic development setups today. IT strategy, technical leadership, mentoring, and lifelong learning for consultants.

Published researcher on agile teams, human-AI collaboration, and technical debt. Regular speaker at JavaZone, XP, and other venues – see talks.

Experience

  • 2020 - present
    Head of Knowit Research
    Knowit
    September 2020 – Present
    • Researcher in KAIROS (2025–2029), a Knowit-led research project with SINTEF and industry partners on human-AI collaboration in software development
    • Led TransformIT (2021–2025), a Knowit research project with SINTEF and industry partners on data-driven digital transformation, product teams, hybrid work, and team improvement
    • Embedded research on agent-driven development with clients, including a following study of an agentic migration at Tet Digital
    • Research partner in TechDebtOps (NFR IPN) on technical debt and PROSPECTS 5.0 (Horizon Europe) on Industry 5.0
    • Building research funding applications with SINTEF, UiO, NTNU, and international universities
    • Advocating communities of practice and lifelong learning for consultants
    • Technology advisory, public speaking, and support for bids
  • 2026
    Lecturer (Universitetslektor), Software Engineering – part-time
    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
    2026 – Present
    • Part-time teaching position in software engineering, alongside the role at Knowit
    • Bringing industry experience and research on agile teams, human-AI collaboration, and agentic development into teaching
  • 2020 - 2020
    Service Platform Lead
    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
  • 2018 - 2020
    CTO and Principal Engineer / Expert Consultant
    Knowit Objectnet
    June 2018 – April 2020
    • Chief Technology Officer role
    • Led the DevOps community
  • 2012 - 2015
    Expert Consultant and DevOps-lead
    Knowit Objectnet
    January 2012 – April 2015
    • Enterprise architecture and tech leadership for Oslo municipality’s central integration platform
  • 2008 - 2012
    Expert Consultant and Manager
    Knowit
    2008 – January 2012
    • Enterprise architecture for Oslo municipality integration platform
  • 2003 - 2008
    Expert Consultant / Senior Consultant
    Unified Consulting
    2003 – 2008
    • Enterprise architecture for Oslo municipality integration platform
    • Technical project leadership (GWT with Spring/Hibernate)
  • 2002 - 2003
    Senior Consultant
    Software Innovation ASA
    2002 – 2003
    • Developed Genova 8.0 XML integration
  • 1997 - 2002
    Systems Consultant
    Genera AS
    1997 – 2002
    • Architected ticketing system for Norwegian Railways (NSB-LISA)
    • Technical project lead (Visual Basic 6 projects)
  • 1995 - 1997
    Part-time Consultant
    Sysdeco Innovation
    1995 – 1997
    • Software development in Systemator 5, C, and C++
    • Unix platform porting, scripting (AWK/SED)

Technical Specialties

  • Agentic software engineering: adopting and scaling AI coding agents in teams, human-in-the-loop workflows, and harness and context engineering (skills, agent instructions, evaluation)
  • AI adoption research: following organizations through agent-driven change, maturity baselines, and measuring real effect beyond the hype
  • Technical and cognitive debt: managing debt in codebases and teams, including the new kinds AI-generated code creates
  • Platforms and organization: platform engineering, product organization, DevOps, and large-scale agile in large enterprises and the public sector
  • Cloud and data: AWS and Databricks certified; microservices and integration architecture

Education

  • 1993 - 2002
    Cand. Scient (Master of Science), Computer Science
    University of Oslo

Certificates

  • Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Profiles and Contact

Publications and Talks