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Jøran Bjerksetmyr

Jøran Bjerksetmyr

I build software with AI agents: I set the direction and review, and agents running under a harness of contracts, review gates and tests write the code, around the clock. Before that, years of Java, Spring Boot, React Native and AWS, the last five as CTO of Overvinne.

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8+years building software, since 2018
5years as CTO of Overvinne
2,500+merged pull requests across 7 side projects since 2025
3public projects live in production

From AI-assisted to fully agentic

How the way I write software has changed in three years.

  1. 2023

    Chat

    Copying code into chatgpt.com and pasting the answers back.

  2. 2023–24

    Autocomplete

    GitHub Copilot in the editor: faster typing, same way of working.

  3. 2024

    AI in the product

    Built a fine-tuned OpenAI model into Overvinne's daily mood report, with a sandbox for safe testing.

  4. 2025

    Agents in the IDE

    JetBrains AI and Junie, then Claude Code: describing the change instead of typing it.

  5. 2026

    A harness

    Praive: agents work under a written contract, with review gates and tests that must pass before anything merges. I set the direction and review; agents open the pull requests.

  6. Now

    Fully agentic

    Nightly jobs and parallel agents ship across seven projects: 6,600+ commits and 2,500+ merged pull requests so far, with me as operator rather than typist.

Projects

Side projects, built with the setup above. Source is private unless linked.

JobbAss front page

JobbAss Live

Reads every new job listing in Norway for you, matches by meaning rather than keywords, and drafts the application.

 Skytilsynet front page

Skytilsynet Live

Tracks how dependent the Norwegian public sector is on foreign cloud technology.

 Kompetansegapet front page

Kompetansegapet Live

Live map of where Norway lacks people, and which education covers the need.
  • 2026

    PraivePrivate

    The development platform behind the rest: agents ship code under contracts, review gates and an operator.

  • 2026

    BetterWorldIn development

    Who really owns the products you use, scored on human rights and democratic values, with sources.

  • 2025

    AburridoIn development

    A boredom engine: one button, one concrete thing to do right now.

  • 2026

    SuverenitetssjekkenIn development

    How much of your workplace's software is owned in safe democracies, as one score.

Experience

  1. 2025–

    Sopra Steria · Manager, joined as Senior Engineer

    Now: tech lead for Halliburton on AAM (Agile Asset Management), the well planning and asset management software they sell in the Drilling and Wells domain.

  2. 2020–2025

    Overvinne · CTO, the first year as a consultant · App Store · Google Play

    • Took the codebase in-house from a seven-person offshore team and moved operations to AWS.
    • Rebuilt the platform as Overvinne 2.0: one React Native codebase, Spring Boot microservices, releases from every other month to weekly.
    • Registered the app as a medical device under EU MDR and led GDPR compliance.
  3. 2019–2021

    Dfind Consulting · Consultant

    Product owner for HelseID self-service at Norsk Helsenett.

  4. 2018–2019

    Netcompany · Consultant

    Full-stack and acting team lead on Oslo kommune's integration platform (400+ microservices).

Education

  • MSc Management of Technology, NTNU 2017
  • BSc Computer Engineering, HiST 2015

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2025
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt 2020
  • PRINCE2 Foundation 2019

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