Christopher Kolstad
Principal Programmer at Unleash-hosted
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolChristopher Kolstad is a Principal Programmer based in Oslo with 12 years of experience driving full-stack engineering and architecture at Unleash-hosted. He is an active contributor to the popular open-source Unleash feature-management platform, implementing feature toggles, tag management, new API endpoints and frontend integrations. His career spans roles as Group Lead Architect, Enterprise Architect and Senior Data Engineer (Mercell, FINN.no, NAV), giving him rare breadth from product-facing architecture to data pipelines and platform reliability. Technically fluent across backend databases, search (Apache Lucene/Solr), CMS/publishing and frontend UX, he blends hands-on coding with strategic system design. Early in his career he set up version-control and single-point publishing workflows, reflecting a long-standing operational focus on tooling and maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oslo
English, Norwegian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Unleash/unleash
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source feature management platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 996 reviews, 369 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the development of the Unleash platform by implementing features related to feature toggles, tag management, and project environment configuration. They focused on enhancing the functionality of the admin interface, implementing the ability to manage tag types, tags, and feature toggles. Their work included the creation of new API endpoints, modifications to existing ones, and the integration of frontend components to display the new features. This work is evident across both backend code involving database interactions and frontend changes creating new UI elements.
collaborationabtestingcapistranoproductioncontinuous-deployment
Unleash/actix-middleware-etag
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
ETag middleware for Actix-web >4
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 6 PRs in 2 years 5 months
middlewareactixetagactix-web
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