About |

I am a Microsoft Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP, Head of the NUnit core development team, and a model railroad enthusiast.

My primary focus can best be described as Software Craftsmanship, encompassing the many aspects and disciplines it entails.

I have extensive experience in DevOps (formerly known as ALM) and was first recognized as a Microsoft MVP in 2009 for my contributions in this area. I’ve since been re-awarded annually for 16 years, now in the Development Technologies category.

While I am deeply code-oriented, I am also a strong advocate for Scrum, Agile, and Lean processes. Ultimately, the truth lies in the code!

I am an ardent supporter of Open Source and firmly believe that both companies and individuals stand to gain significantly. This gain stems not only from the utilization of open-source solutions, which they often do more extensively than they might recognize, but also from active contributions to the open-source community. The impact of such contributions cannot be underestimated; they bring about a profoundly positive transformation in your organizational ethos, fostering a broader global involvement that far surpasses the insularity of keeping one’s code proprietary. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this matter further with you.

My possible areas of engagement can be divided into four parts:

Coding and Design

I am a strong believer in good coding practices, beautiful code, minimalistic coding, pragmatism, strongly typed code, and overall shift-left thinking to everything that relates to coding. The language of use doesn’t really matter, but for myself, I am mostly using C#, dabbles with Python, a bit of C/C++, and otherwise whatever comes my way.

Management consulting

Coaching and mentoring management Working with the organization, establishing teams and team structures Establishing best practices for an end-to-end process in an organization, covering from sales through software production, testing and customer feedback.

Test practices

I have been working with test teams to improve and change test practices, and in particular in how to automate as much as possible of the testing. I am advocating that developers embrace in principle a “test-first” (TDD) approach, but stay pragmatic about it. Also that a shift-left practice is often the best, but that it doesn’t mean you should not do integration tests. You need both! It is all about the proper balance.

Architecture, Design and Coding

I am available for work in the areas of architecture, design (patterns and best practices), coding and testing

Application and code assessment
Coaching and mentoring
Active participation, in particular in critical phases of a project (Yes, I am a coder!)
Process, including Scrum and DevOps practices, Git source control, and anything related to Github and Azure DevOps.

My main focus areas are Microsoft Technologies, particularly C# based applications, be it client, backend or Azure hosted. I am also a keen unit testing enthusiast, and as head of the NUnit team, I have a broad knowledge in these areas.

I can be contacted through mail at terje at hermit.no, or through any of the social media links below.

MVP profile

My facebook profile, which is more techie than dinners

Linkedin profile

Twitter handle is @Osiristerje

About-me/terjes: Currently stuff from there are moved over here

My profile on Github

My Gists on github

Github IO - Wiki for git

Git presentations on SlideShare

NUnit stuff

NUnit Github organisation