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 14 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:
14+ years

Companies:
3 active

GitHub:
169+ repos

Side projects:
too many

Recent Articles

Don't Upload PDFs of Your Passport Publicly
A lost blog post from 2014 about how a PDF compression site accidentally exposed users' passports and sensitive documents through directory listing.
ELIZA's Grandchildren
In 1966, Weizenbaum's secretary asked to be left alone with a chatbot she knew was fake. Sixty years later, the emotional circuitry that made her do it is being industrialized — and expertise is no shield.
Running LLMs in PHP with ONNX Runtime: Offline AI Text Generation Without Python
I got IBM's Granite 3.0 2B model running entirely in PHP using ONNX Runtime FFI bindings. No Python runtime, no API calls, no external services. Here's how it works and what I learned.
The Read-Later Graveyard
I ran 1,693 bookmarks through a pipeline that crawls, classifies, and summarizes every page. 212 were dead. Only one was recoverable. Here's what a decade of digital hoarding taught me about the web, and myself.
The €18 Billion Cookie
Cookie banners cost the EU more labor per year than it took to write all of Wikipedia. The commonly cited estimates are off by 6x. The banners don't even work.
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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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