Transparency
Believes in open source, knowledge sharing and transparent communication.
Christian Kårbø Engelsen
System Administrator
Bergen, Norway
System administrator with experience in Linux, Docker, networking, cloud services and technical operations for student organizations. Has led IT departments, maintained stable infrastructure, and provided technical support and training.
Skills
Work Experience
Technical Director (40%)
- Overall radio technical responsibility for the entire student radio station.
- Maintained and developed the DigaSystem ecosystem for 10+ workstations.
- Handled configuration of physical machines on the same network.
- Responsible for operating DHD mixers, Presonus 32SL mixers and associated software.
- Planned major purchases for technical upgrades.
- Led a group of volunteers in the technical team.
DigaSystemDjangoWordPressRadio EngineeringSystem AdministrationNetwork AdministrationTechnical OperationsProcurement PlanningRecruitment
Volunteer Experience
IT Member
- Took initiative and developed a draft of an internal staff database.
- Actively recruited several volunteers.
SupabaseAstroJSDatabase DevelopmentRecruitmentProduct DevelopmentGit
Social Coordinator
- 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
IT Manager
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Responsible for building a new website in WordPress.
WordPressWeb Development
Education
Information Science
120 ECTS credits August 2024 — June 2026
Specialization in information architecture, user behaviour and digital communication.
Cognitive Science
180 ECTS credits August 2018 — June 2024
Consciousness, cognitive abilities and philosophy of AI. Specialization in computer science, philosophy and information science.
Artificial Intelligence
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
Structure and Efficiency
Shapes and maintains organizational structures and procedures that scale.