HELGE SVERREAll-stack Developer
Bergen, Norwayv13.0
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.

LaravelVue.jsLivewire
FilamentFlutterAWS
SvelteTailwindDocker
Quick Stats
Location:
Bergen, NO

Experience:
13+ years

Companies:
3 active

GitHub:
258+ repos

Side projects:
too many

Recent Articles

Building sql-splitter: Correctness Is the Product
sql-splitter shipped nine subcommands in 48 hours. That was the easy part. The hard part — real-world SQL dumps, honest benchmarks, and a PHP tool that's faster than you — is what makes a tool trustworthy.
Building Token: A Rust Text Editor with AI Agents
Token is a 40,000+ line Rust text editor built through 170+ AI agent conversations. This documents the framework — Build/Improve/Sweep modes, reference docs as agent APIs, gap documents — that made sustained AI collaboration work.
Sema After the First Week: VM, NaN-Boxing, and the Real Project
What happened after v1.0.1. A bytecode VM, NaN-boxed values, a package manager, a web server, and the performance story that came with all of it.
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.
Synthetic Peer Review — or, How Fake Reddit Comments Found Real Bugs
Use an LLM to simulate diverse reviewers, then verify each critique against your codebase. I tested it with 305 fake Reddit comments on my Lisp project. Half were wrong. The other half led to real fixes.
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Work History

PeriodCompanyRoleDetails
2023 — NowCrescat ASVP of EngineeringEvent management software for venues and festivals.
2021 — NowCoded ASPartnerB2B SaaS: BoatFlow & Reflow.
2020 — NowLiseth SolutionsOwnerChatFlow, Kassal.app.
2020 — 2023TjommiCTOPrice monitoring, web scrapers, Chrome extension.
2019 — 2020Guilty ASPartner & Lead DevFlutter, Laravel, VueJS & Craft CMS.
2017 — 2019Guilty ASPartner & System DevLaravel, VueJS, CraftCMS.
2016 — 2017ProffBitPartner & System DevBusiness SaaS with PHP, Laravel, VueJS.
2016 — 2017Experis NorgeSystem Dev (Contract)Consultant at Guilty via Experis IT.
2015 — 2016ABAXSystem DeveloperC#/.NET, CQRS, EventSourcing, Microservices.
2014 — 2015FrontTek ASWeb DeveloperJoomla SaaS for construction. Acquired by ABAX.
2012 — 2014Elkem BremangerIT ApprenticeIT apprenticeship. Where it all began.

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