About

Hey,

I’m a Norwegian product designer who can code and excel with data and numbers.

I’ve worked with Autodesk, Snapchat, McKinsey & Company, Antler, Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Company, Credit Suisse, Vodafone, and high-growth startups.

My education spans an MS in design & engineering @ University of Pennsylvania, and a BSc in information technology & management @ The University of Manchester.

Current focus: building AI tools to learning & problem solving, drawing from my studies and experiences in human computer interaction, learning science, and cognitive science,.

My programming & design tools

Figma / Framer / Javascript / Typescript/ ReactJS / NextJS / HTML / CSS / C# / Unity3D / Swift / SwiftUI / Python / MySQL / Tableau / ARKit / CoreML / Rhino3D / Blender


People I am deeply inspired by

Bret Victor / JCR Licklider / Jef Raskin / Douglas Engelbart / Hillary Coe / Paul Graham / Walter Gropius / Dieter Rams / Vannevar Bush / Josh Miller


Fun facts

  • I was a childhood magician who used to perform on the streets of Oslo, while having my own shows at school.

  • I am a previous Norwegian record holder in 60m and 200m sprinting in my age class, and winner of national championships in track & field and soccer.

  • I helped one of my best friends raise 80,000 USD to fund his university studies, in 4 hours.

  • As a high schooler, I was amongst the youngest to finish top 5 in Harvard Business School Online's Inaugural Global Community Challenge.

  • I wrote an independent research paper on education reform just after high school with support from world-leading experts from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton.

  • Through cold-calling several business and tech executives during high school, I was invited to exciting coffee chats and job-shadowing opportunities feeding my curiosity.

  • I have launched multiple products at companies I interned at, and I spend some of my free time experimenting with product ideas and exploring emerging technologies.

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