Hi! Welcome to my page.

This page under the 1kristensen.no domain is dedicated to my professional accomplishments and interests.

My full name is Ole Germann Kristensen, but you can call me Ole (/ˈuːlə/). I currently reside in the city of Sarpsborg in Norway with my fiancée and daughter.

I work as an Integration Consultant for Advania, iBiz in the capital city of Oslo, where I work with BizTalk and Azure to create cost-efficient, traceable, and fault-tolerant integrations.

Work Experience

Integration Consultant, iBiz Advania, June 2022 – Present

At iBiz Advania, I specialize in integration and business logic. Here are some of the skills and technologies I’ve worked with:

Designed and developed trackable, guaranteed delivery solutions using Azure API Management, Service Bus topics, queues, and Function Apps.

Learnt the ins and outs of the BizTalk platform, designing and deploying custom components for use cases beyond BizTalk’s standard capabilities. Deployed about 80 integrations.

Utilized DevOps pipelines to build, test, and deploy solutions in a standardized and accessible way.

Used Git for version control and codespaces, maintaining an organized structure with descriptive commit messages and purposeful branching.

Experienced in using queries and managing tasks in DevOps.

Written PowerShell scripts for pipelines and standalone applications for generating files and structures.

Efficiently communicated and managed projects remotely, leveraging DevOps and Teams despite location differences.

Leveraged YAML to create pipelines programmatically, completing tasks in conjunction with Bicep.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Design and Development of Information Systems: Programming, Høgskolen i Østfold, June 2019 – May 2024

This degree covers all main aspects of backend systems, teaching core paradigms through several programming languages. I am considering further studies to pursue a master’s degree. Below is a list of key subjects:

Focusing on the core browser technologies HTML and CSS.

Fundamentals of programming using JavaScript.

Introduction to IT and the basics of academics.

Object-oriented programming using Java, covering objects, abstraction, and inheritance.

Focused on database design, normalization standards, and avoiding dependencies and duplicates using MySQL.

Explored various IT security concepts, including attacking Windows 8 machines using Kali Linux with a hash decryption tool.

Explored Unix operating systems using CLI and C code to view processes.

Programming mathematics, logical notation, sets, matrix calculation, and functions.

Covered version control, unit tests, code patterns, paradigms, and collaborative work using Git.

Compared different sorting algorithms using big O notation and explored more complex algorithms such as search trees.

Created and packaged frameworks for Java with re-use and flexibility in mind.

Built a full-stack web application using ASP.NET and C#.

Designed and created an Android application using Android Studio, Kotlin, and Firebase. My group created TaskWise, listed under Projects.

Read more under “projects” further down below.

Fullstack webapplication using Javascript. (Node.js, react)

Encompassed distributed data and datasets using graph and document databases, as opposed to traditional matrix databases like SQL.

Delved deeper into the functional programming paradigm and how it enables code and tasks to be efficiently split into multiple processing units.

Read more under “projects” further down below.

Interests

Although my profession suggests I am solely interested in digital technology, my interests stretch far and wide. Here are some of my main interests:

I develop several systems for my home and life to improve efficiency. For example, I avoid folding clothes by hanging them directly on hangers after washing.

I’ve been playing paintball for 13 years and currently captain my team. We play “speedball,” a competitive format of paintball.

I love working with wood and enjoy small projects like shelves, though I dream of larger projects like creating a coffee table.

I enjoy creating projects for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.

The black box project is a theme of gifts I give during christmas. These incorporate lights and other effects to create an interactive gift-opening experience.

I rig up with smokemachines, custom lighting, sound and ornaments for those who dare to ring my doorbell during Halloween.

I love fixing things. Recently, I fixed my car’s parking sensors for 70 NOK instead of paying 3500 NOK for a new part. I’ve also repaired drills, computers, and washing machines.

I am a blood donor and love to give gifts. I contribute whenever I see an opportunity to help.

Projects

The Light System project stems from my bachelor project and is designed to work with Philips Hue lights to simulate the daylight cycle for geriatric patients suffering from dementia. This fork was developed by me utilizing the L.A.M.P (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, and is not a finalized version. The submitted version was a collaborative project that used Node for its stack.

TaskWise is an Android application that enables users to manage tasks efficiently using checkboxes, as well as time tasks so that you can efficiently plan out your day through statistical averages.

Contact

If you would like to get in touch, please connect with me on LinkedIn where I can provide additional contact information.