Henrik Pettersen

25 years of experience in all levels of software development, including frontend, backend, fullstack, data, cloud, events, microservices, linux, and devops engineering, technical, cloud, solution and enterprise architecture, team and technical leadership, and agile project and delivery management.

More than 15 years of experience as hands-on solution, cloud, technical, and enterprise architect, experienced with TOGAF, Archimate, C4, Scrum, and SAFe, delivering both design and devops implementations in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Deep understanding of all AWS services and architecture (ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, Cognito, RDS, Athena, Kinesis, Firehose, OpenSearch, Redshift, Glue, Steps, Sagemaker, MSK, Eventbridge, SNS, SQS, ECR, Aurora, DynamoDB, Neptune, RDS, DocumentDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, ELB, etc.)

I have helped develop enterprise and data platform architectures, strategies, and culture, and to bridge the gap between engineering, data, and analytics teams, and have introduced shift-left, data contracts, quality assurance, observability, debugging, and monitoring tools, as well as glossaries, and catalogues. I have also implemented Data Products, Data Mesh, and Data governance for a 400 strong engineering team, along with their analytics, product, and data science teams.

Experienced in a range of programming languages and frameworks, including Java, Spring, Kafka, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Node, Go, SQL, XML, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, ReactJS, C++, Bash, Kotlin, Scala, etc. Very strong experience with Java and Spring.

Experienced with most SQL, NoSQL, graph, and analytical databases, such as Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, RDS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Marklogic, ElasticSearch, Neptune, Neo4J, GraphDB, etc.

Experienced with DDD, TDD, DRY, SOLID, SOA, Microservices, etc., as well as Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, and everything devops. I have also provided advice and mentoring on Kafka architecture and configuration, event design and data modelling, and asynchronous architectural patterns and service design. I am able to assist in all areas of delivery and project management, as well as mentoring, team building, agile workshops and ceremonies, etc.

An expert in AI rules and graph technology, linked data, rules, semantics, and taxonomies.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from San Francisco State University, and Bachelor of Science in Economics from University of London, Birkbeck. Fluent in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and German