Christian Kårbø Engelsen

Managing Director

Bergen, Norway

Managing director with experience in organizational leadership, finance, administration, marketing and HR. Has led IT departments, planned and managed budgets, maintained ongoing dialogue with leadership, and built stable teams that last over time.

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Work Experience

General Manager (50%)

Studentradioen i Bergen

2025-08 — Present
  • Responsible for marketing, finances, accounting and customer relations.
  • Collaborates with the board to run daily operations and long-term planning.
  • Takes initiative on organizational changes to improve efficiency.
  • Leads the IT group.
MarketingAccountingVismaBudgetingCustomer RelationsOrganization DevelopmentBoard Collaboration

Volunteer Experience

2025-02 — Present
  • Co-founded the organization.
  • Recruited a finance manager and a PR manager.
  • Host of Bergen Open Source 2025.
  • Organized and executed Bergen Open Source 2025.
AstroJSCodebergGitOrganization BuildingEvent ManagementConference ManagementRecruitmentProject Management
2022-02 — 2026-01
  • Led a group of volunteer IT students.
  • Overall responsibility for uptime of critical custom digital services.
  • Administered services, databases and file storage in Azure.
  • Further developed the website in NextJS, staff database in Angular, and API in .Net.
  • Actively collaborated with the board to establish the IT group as an autonomous internal unit.
  • Primary responsibility for recruiting to the group.
AzureNext.jsAngular.NETRecruitmentOrganization BuildingOperations & Uptime

President

friByte

2021-12 — 2022-11
  • Strengthened existing customer relationships and brought in new clients.
  • Overall responsibility for recruitment.
  • Responsible for celebrating the organization's 20th anniversary.
  • Took initiative to start a technology podcast.
  • Secured an agreement with Innovasjonshub for permanent office space.
  • Took initiative for a Django workshop with Funbit and the first annual CTF.
  • Introduced the board roles Press Manager and Social Coordinator.
  • Documented relevant processes and services in an open wiki.
ZolaGanetiSystem AdministrationLinuxFreeBSDApacheNginxProxMoxShell ScriptingFirewallNetworkingGitWireguardDockerCustomer RelationsRecruitmentEvent ManagementOrganization BuildingDocumentation

Production Manager

Phonofestivalen

2021-09 — 2022-01
  • Responsible for the technical execution of the festival.
  • Planned the technical execution.
Production ManagementTechnical PlanningEvent Management

Vice President

friByte

2021-01 — 2021-11
  • Supported the president in renewing the organization.
  • Handled all administrative tasks, such as meeting invitations and minutes.
  • Migrated the student radio's services to VMs in ProxMox.
  • Established contact with the student media organizations.
ZolaGanetiSystem AdministrationLinuxFreeBSDApacheNginxProxMoxShell ScriptingFirewallNetworkingGitWireguardDockerAdministrationVirtualizationMigration

IT Manager

Studentersamfunnet i Bergen

2018-08 — 2019-06
  • Responsible for building a new website in WordPress.
WordPressWeb Development

Education

Information Science

University of Bergen Master's Degree

120 ECTS credits August 2024 — June 2026

Specialization in information architecture, user behaviour and digital communication.

Cognitive Science

University of Bergen Bachelor's Degree

180 ECTS credits August 2018 — June 2024

Consciousness, cognitive abilities and philosophy of AI. Specialization in computer science, philosophy and information science.

Artificial Intelligence

University of Bergen Bachelor's Degree

80 ECTS credits August 2022 — June 2024

Artificial agents, machine learning and development of AI solutions. Combines computer science and information science.

Skills

Organization & Leadership

Project ManagementRecruitmentOrganization BuildingOrganization DevelopmentBoard WorkBoard CollaborationAdministrationEvent ManagementConference ManagementCourse FacilitationTeachingProduction Management

Business & Strategy

AccountingBudgetingBrand BuildingGrowth StrategyCustomer RelationsMarketingStrategyDocumentationProcurement PlanningProduct DevelopmentUX

General

Collaborative workAcademic Writing

Certificates

Forklift Operator Certificate

Norwegian Armed Forces

2017-10

Driver's License, Class B

Norwegian Public Roads Administration

2017-01

Languages

Norwegian (Bokmål) Native
English Fluent
German Basic

Qualities and Values

Transparency

Believes in open source, knowledge sharing and transparent communication.

Structure and Efficiency

Shapes and maintains organizational structures and procedures that scale.