Engineering Manager - Promon AS - Oslo, Norway
(2026-01)
- Lead people management for 20+ engineers across multiple engineering teams, with responsibility for performance, development, engagement, and retention.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, career development discussions, promotion assessments, and salary and compensation reviews.
- Coach engineers and technical leaders, set clear expectations, provide structured feedback, and address performance or development concerns when needed.
- Partner with engineering, product, and company leadership on team structure, capacity, priorities, delivery risks, and long-term organizational planning.
- Act as a technical bridge between customers, customer-facing teams, and engineering, translating customer requirements, technical challenges, and integration issues into actionable engineering context.
- Participate in customer-facing technical discussions when deeper engineering expertise is required, helping clarify product capabilities, technical constraints, risks, and potential solutions.
- Work closely with Tech Leads and senior engineers to identify technical and delivery risks, dependencies, ownership gaps, and cross-team issues early.
- Support engineering execution by improving communication, accountability, decision-making, and alignment across development, product, security, and customer-facing functions.
- Lead and support hiring, onboarding, career progression, promotion readiness, succession planning, and retention.
- Provide leadership with visibility into engineering capacity, team health, delivery risks, technical concerns, and organizational challenges.
- Identify and address organizational, performance, and communication issues that affect team effectiveness.
- Contribute to engineering leadership decisions around organizational health, engineering culture, ways of working, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Team Lead, Hands-on Developer, Scrum Master & Technical Architect - Promon AS - Oslo, Norway
(2020-12 - 2026-01)
- Led teams working on mobile app protection, app shielding, and threat detection technologies.
- Worked hands-on as a developer and technical architect for Apple platform security frameworks.
- Designed and maintained core iOS security framework components.
- Acted as a technical interface between customers, customer-facing teams, product, research, security, and engineering.
- Supported complex customer integrations, technical investigations, debugging, performance optimization, and release readiness.
- Translated customer integration challenges and technical requirements into actionable engineering work and architectural decisions.
- Mentored engineers and supported recruitment, onboarding, technical coaching, and professional development.
- Worked closely with research, security, product, and customer-facing teams on product capabilities, technical risks, and customer requirements.
Team Lead, Hands-on Developer, Scrum Master & Technical Architect - Promon AS - Oslo, Norway
(2020-12 - 2026-01)
Key Contributions
- Grew from hands-on developer and technical architect into a broader engineering and people leadership role.
- Built strong relationships across engineering, leadership, research, product, security, customers, and customer-facing teams.
- Improved onboarding, mentoring, feedback, and team collaboration.
- Helped reduce friction between teams and improve communication between leadership, engineering, and customer-facing functions.
- Combined deep technical expertise in mobile application security with team leadership and customer-facing technical problem solving.
Head of Mobile Department & Lead Mobile Architect - Admincontrol AS - Oslo, Norway
(2014-08 - 2020-04)
- Led the mobile department as a hands-on engineering leader.
- Managed two mobile teams across native iOS and cross-platform development.
- Held responsibility for mobile architecture, security, development, delivery, and people management.
- Defined mobile architecture, engineering standards, development processes, and release practices.
- Worked hands-on with secure mobile application development.
- Led work on end-to-end encryption, secure authentication, and data loss prevention features.
- Established secure development practices, security reviews, OWASP Mobile Top 10 mitigation, and penetration testing routines.
- Worked closely with product, leadership, business stakeholders, and customer-facing functions to align technical decisions with product and business needs.
- Supported hiring, onboarding, mentoring, technical coaching, performance development, and professional growth of mobile engineers.
Head of Mobile Department & Lead Mobile Architect - Admincontrol AS - Oslo, Norway
(2014-08 - 2020-04)
Highlights
- Led two mobile teams across native and cross-platform technologies.
- Combined hands-on architecture and development with people management and delivery responsibility.
- Built stronger mobile engineering practices around architecture, security, quality, and release delivery.
- Maintained zero major mobile security incidents across the mobile product portfolio.
Senior iOS Developer - Schibsted Media AS - Oslo, Norway
(2020-04 - 2020-12)
- Developed and improved iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
- Worked on architecture, performance, feature delivery, and user experience.
- Contributed to a high-traffic consumer product environment.
- Collaborated across product, design, backend, and mobile engineering functions.
Senior iOS Developer - TIDAL - Oslo, Norway
(2011-10 - 2014-08)
- Built core iOS functionality for a global music streaming platform.
- Worked on performance, scalability, user experience, and mobile feature delivery.
- Collaborated with product, design, backend, and mobile teams.
- Contributed to technical decisions for a high-traffic consumer mobile product.
iOS Developer - Altoros Development - Minsk, Belarus
(2010-10 - 2011-10)
- Built iOS applications for international customers.
- Worked across the full development lifecycle from requirements and implementation to testing and release.
- Collaborated directly with distributed teams and customer stakeholders.
