david honneffer

curriculum vitae

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2026 - future

Senior Engineer

FINN.no

2017 - 2026

  • Senior front-end developer for the Financial Integrations team. Comprising 20 apps earning over 100mNOK/year.
  • Creator of several organization-wide modules serving millions of users across the Nordics - includes both client and server modules as well as many aspects of the design system.
  • Owned analytics for the team and enabled data-driven decisions. Drove experimentation as a practice and increased revenue by ~4mNOK in 2025.
  • Mentored several mid-level developers across different teams.

Front-end Developer

Telenor Digital

2017 - 2017

  • Sole front-end developer for GDPR consent-gathering app - serving 15m+ global users in 2018.

Front-end & DevOps Engineer

Oslo University Hospital

2015 - 2016

  • Transitioned the unit to modern DevOps practices, enabling more reliable deployments of an in-house genetic analysis application that works with critical patient-data.
  • Created and implemented a complete redesign of this same application with a focus on user-friendliness.

Director of Internal IT

Opera Software

2012 - 2015

  • Responsible for ensuring IT experience is understandable, secure, and efficient for 1600 employees in 29 offices globally.
  • Managed staff of 12 employees, both local and remote. Coordinated with 20 additional IT staff in other business entities.
  • Travelled to worldwide offices ~25%

M.S. Innovation & Entrepreneurship

University of Oslo

2011 - 2012

Senior Teaching Fellow

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology

2009 - 2011

  • Lectured daily on business/entrepreneurship and computer science topics. Created supporting materials including slides, homework, quizzes, tests.
  • Mentored teams of post-graduate level students working on software-startup business plans. Met daily to discuss each phase of product development and key business decisions.

Technology Director

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology

2009 - 2011

  • Implemented and owned a complete IT solution for local campus - including networking, servers, and user laptops.

B.S. (cum laude) Computer Science

The College at Brockport

Graduated 2009

Sales Executive

Keyence Corporation

2006 - 2008

B.S. Management

Purdue University

Graduated 2006

Front-end

Javascript

  • Daily-use; familiar with modern Javascript, common tools, and several frameworks - React, Svelte, Vue.js, Lit.
  • Have developed open-source modules that are widely used in the JS ecosystem.

HTML / CSS

  • Daily-use; can quickly prototype ideas, as well as create sustainable solutions; knowledgeable on cross-platform as well as accessibility considerations.
  • Enjoy staying current with ongoing Web Platform improvements and best-practices.

UX / UI

  • High attention to detail with a history of working either directly on design or closely with designers.
  • 5+ years experience working directly on design systems

Back-end

Node.js

  • Daily-use; deep experience with server frameworks, build tooling, package management. Comfortable rapidly building a prototype as well as building out full backend solutions.

Others

  • Experience with Ruby and Python at previous positions for back-end services.

Operations

DevOps

  • Familiar with most modern DevOps practices, experience with cloud platforms as well as deploying/maintaining in-house hardware.
  • Have worked extensively with Github Actions and developed many reusable actions and workflows.

Operating Systems

  • Deep knowledge of macOS internals and platform management.
  • Very comfortable with Linux and CLIs.

Spoken Languages

English

  • Mother tongue, fluent

Norwegian

  • Intermediate