Helge Sverre - All-stack Developer, Workaholic, Compulsive side-hustler

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HELGE SVERRE

All-stack Developer
Bergen, Norway • v13.0

est. 2012  |  300+ repos  |  4000+ contributions
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All-stack Developer, Workaholic, Compulsive side-hustler.

Experienced developer located in Bergen, Norway with over 13 years of professional experience. Passionate about building web apps with Laravel and the TALL-stack. Launched multiple side-projects and worked in startups, corporates, and web agencies.

Currently VP of Engineering at Crescat AS, building collaborative event management software. Also Partner at Coded AS and Owner of Liseth Solutions AS.

Laravel	Vue.js	Livewire
Filament	Flutter	AWS
Svelte	Tailwind	Docker

Quick Stats

Location:
Bergen, NO

Experience:
13+ years

Companies:
3 active

GitHub:
258+ repos

Side projects:
too many

Recent Articles

2026-02-16	Syntax Highlighting a Plain Textarea with a Transparent Overlay How to add syntax highlighting to a regular HTML textarea without any editor libraries, using a transparent textarea layered on top of a highlighted pre element.
2026-02-15	Building Sema: A Lisp with LLM Primitives, Built with AI Agents Sema is a Scheme-like Lisp implemented in Rust where LLM calls are just another form of evaluation. I built it in 5 days using Amp Code. Here's how.
2026-02-15	Reverse Engineering Norwegian Grocery Apps I decompiled the Rema 1000 and Coop Norway Android apps to map their internal APIs. Here's every endpoint, authentication flow, and data model — plus how you could build your own receipt fetcher.
2026-02-15	If It's Free, You're the Product: Investigating Spenderlog A free spending tracker on Google Play, made by a market research agency. I decompiled the APK and followed the money trail.
2026-02-11	SurrealDB 3.0: What's Really New? (Beyond the Speed Hype) A no-hype breakdown of SurrealDB 3.0's actual new features, architectural shifts, breaking changes, and migration path — pulled from the release notes and beta changelogs.
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Work History

Period	Company	Role	Details
2023 — Now	Crescat AS	VP of Engineering	Event management software for venues and festivals.
2021 — Now	Coded AS	Partner	B2B SaaS: BoatFlow & Reflow.
2020 — Now	Liseth Solutions	Owner	ChatFlow, Kassal.app.
2020 — 2023	Tjommi	CTO	Price monitoring, web scrapers, Chrome extension.
2019 — 2020	Guilty AS	Partner & Lead Dev	Flutter, Laravel, VueJS & Craft CMS.
2017 — 2019	Guilty AS	Partner & System Dev	Laravel, VueJS, CraftCMS.
2016 — 2017	ProffBit	Partner & System Dev	Business SaaS with PHP, Laravel, VueJS.
2016 — 2017	Experis Norge	System Dev (Contract)	Consultant at Guilty via Experis IT.
2015 — 2016	ABAX	System Developer	C#/.NET, CQRS, EventSourcing, Microservices.
2014 — 2015	FrontTek AS	Web Developer	Joomla SaaS for construction. Acquired by ABAX.
2012 — 2014	Elkem Bremanger	IT Apprentice	IT apprenticeship. Where it all began.

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