Christian Kårbø Engelsen

Organization Developer

Bergen, Norway

Organization developer with broad experience from student organizations, conferences and volunteer communities in Bergen. Has recruited and led volunteers, organized events and built networks across organizations. Also has experience building and maintaining organizational structures and procedures.

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Email ckengelsen97@gmail.com
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Volunteer Experience

Communications Manager

friByte

2026-08 — Present
  • Responsible for the organization's communication and visibility.
Brand BuildingOrganization Building
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

Course Facilitator

AI Safety Bergen

2024-01 — 2024-06
  • Taught curriculum in AI Safety Governance.
  • Guided a group through 8 weeks of seminars.
AI SafetyAI Safety GovernanceTeachingCourse FacilitationAI Ethics

Member

AI Safety Bergen

2023-08 — 2023-12
  • Active member of AI Safety Bergen.
AI Safety

Social Coordinator

friByte

2023-08 — 2024-03
  • Took initiative and organized social activities for all members.
  • Documented various processes and services in an open wiki.
  • Local coordinator and host for Bergen Open Source 2023.
LinuxProxMoxVirtualizationSystem AdministrationGitEvent ManagementOrganization BuildingDocumentationConference Management

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

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

Member

friByte

2020-09 — 2020-12
  • First admitted as an ordinary member of friByte.

Social Coordinator for the PR Department

Studentersamfunnet i Bergen

2019-08 — 2020-06
  • Social coordinator in the PR department of Studentersamfunnet i Bergen.
Event Management

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

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

Featured Projects

Stroop Game

The Stroop experiment in the form of a game.

JavaScript
Source code Live demo

Personal Website

My personal website and blog, built with SvelteKit.

SvelteKitTypeScript
Source code Live demo

Næringsfordeling

Visual overview of all industries in Norway.

SvelteTypeScriptVite
Source code Live demo

Open Food Facts DB Splitter

Script and repository that creates and stores .db files for products per country.

Python
Source code

Sentiment Plotter

Script that extracts discussion from the TC39 meeting notes and plots the sentiment of the discussion in a graph.

Python
NLP
Source code

Gitrell

Simple script that synchronizes all your local git repositories with their respective remotes.

Shell
Source code

Arkivari

Script that programmatically archives all pages of a domain to the Internet Archive.

Python
Source code

Postreceiver

A small Flask application that listens for POST requests and executes shell commands locally.

PythonFlask
Source code

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.

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.