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Kristian S. Munkvold

Kristian S. Munkvold

Where Design Meets Engineering

I build products that ship—and teams that keep shipping. From prototype to production, from idea to scale. Now building an AI-native startup in Oslo.

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From Prototype to Production

Bridging the gap between concept and shipped product. Design thinking meets technical architecture—with AI accelerating the path from idea to reality.

From Team to Velocity

Great people producing great results. Building engineering culture, DevOps practices, and the clarity that lets talented teams actually ship.

From Hype to AI-Powered

Moving past the buzzwords to products that work. Practical AI integration—from rapid LLM prototyping to production systems that scale.

Portfolio

Currently

Building something new. Founder of a pre-launch startup in Oslo.

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Strise

Principal Engineer / Engineering Manager

2023 – 2024

Engineering Manager with personnel responsibilities at an Atomico-backed AML platform. Cut deploy time from 3+ hours to 15 minutes while leading team growth and hiring.

Cross-functional forums
3h → 15min deploys
SOC2 + DevOps
AI-driven development
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Schibsted SMB (Mittanbud)

Principal Consultant — Platform Architecture & Transformation

Contract through Munk AS

2021 – 2023

Shipped a marketplace re-architecture—200K consumers, 30K suppliers—from monolith to cloud-native. Full C-level visibility throughout.

Monolith → Microservices
AWS + Kubernetes
DORA metrics & OKRs
C-level reporting
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Gjensidige

Solutions Architect → Team Lead → Discipline Leader

2018 – 2021

Built the platform serving 1M+ customers across 6 countries. Created the design system used by all digital product teams.

6 countries, 8 languages
Design system creator
1M+ customers served
CMS integration
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No Isolation

UX Engineer → Head of Web

2017 – 2018

Scaled international web platform across 7 countries. Led KOMP front-end development and built AV1 admin tools at this award-winning startup.

KOMP front-end lead
AV1 admin tools
7-country platform
Oslo Innovation Award
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Asio AS

Lead Designer / Full Stack Developer

2014 – 2015

Designed and developed the teacher's perspective for Enki—a multiplayer educational game now used by 40,000+ students across Norway and Sweden. Applied learning science to game design; wrote my Master's thesis on the project.

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Helse Sør-Øst

Lead Designer — FS Quality

Contract through Computas AS

2016

Led the User Experience design for a Quality & Documentation System for Norway's largest health region—80,000+ healthcare professionals across 11 hospital trusts.

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Computas AS

UX Designer / Front End Developer / Part-time Researcher

2012 – 2016

Shipped three decision-support tools for ConocoPhillips and Eni Norge at Norway's pioneering AI consultancy. Grew from intern to part-time researcher—each project built on user research from the previous.

Earlier Experience

Intelecy

Fall 2018

Independent Technology and Design Consultant

Designed and built the onboarding experience for this industrial AI platform. Early-stage product work—shipped fast.

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University of Oslo & OsloMet

2012 – 2014

Assistant Lecturer / Teaching Assistant

Taught 350-400 students per semester while completing my own degrees. Four years of making technical concepts accessible.

Education

Degrees

Master's Degree2013–2015

Informatics: Design, Use, Interaction

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University of Oslo

Thesis: "The Design of Educational Games: Enki"

Bachelor's Degree2010–2012

Informatics: Interaction Design

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University of Oslo
Year Program2009–2010

Psychology

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NTNU

Earlier Experience

Freelance Web Developer2003–2011

Built websites for businesses across Trondheim starting at age 15

Competitive Gaming2003–2008

2nd place at Xenox 2005 with Clan Colition—learning teamwork and performing under pressure

First Computer~1990

Started on DOS at age 3. Wrote my first essay in English due to an obsession with terminal-based games

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