Eirik Bøe

Software Development Consultant at Bouvet

Dual US/Norwegian citizen (born in the USA) · Stavanger, Norway

Endlessly curious about how things work under the hood, whether I'm building something new or taking it apart to find out. I care about fast, careful code and getting the details right.

Portfolio

Experience, skills & work.

Six years building professional software, plus a long trail of open-source experiments and self-hosted infrastructure.

Experience

Software Development Consultant · Bouvet
2022 - Present

Developing and maintaining critical security infrastructure for the oil & gas sector, for clients including Aker BP and Equinor, modernizing legacy codebases and building new solutions, primarily in C# / ASP.NET and React.
- C#
- ASP.NET
- React
- Entity Framework
- SQL Server
- Azure
Production & Electronics QA · Westcontrol
2021 - 2022

QA inspection, assembly and repair of printed circuit boards, including manual SMD soldering.
- Electronics
- SMD soldering
- QA
Software Engineer · Maritime Robotics
2018 - 2021

Software for autonomous drones spanning agriculture to mapping, plus a remote controller for an autonomous tractor, using C++/Qt applications, hardware and DJI SDK integration, and networking for ground-station communication.
- C++
- Qt / QML
- Robotics
- DJI SDK
- LoRa
- Protocol Buffers
- Low-Level Networking
- Linux
Electrical Energy · Strand High School Education
2017 - 2018

A second-year specialization (Vg2) in high-power electrical systems: high-voltage and high-current installations, energy distribution, and industrial automation with motors and PLCs.
- High voltage
- Energy distribution
- Automation
Data and Electronics · Tryggheim High School Education
2016 - 2017

A second-year specialization (Vg2) in low-voltage electronics: telecommunications, networking and servers, embedded systems, and building safety systems such as alarm and fire detection.
- Networking
- Telecom
- Embedded
- Safety systems
Electronics · Strand High School Education
2015 - 2016

The foundation year (Vg1) of Norway's electro programme, covering electrical installation and the path toward an electrician's apprenticeship.
- Electrical
- Installation

Skills

Languages

C#
C++
TypeScript
Rust
Go
Python

Backend

.NET / ASP.NET
Entity Framework
REST APIs
WebSockets
Protocol Buffers

Frontend

SvelteKit
React
Vue
Tailwind
Redux

Data

PostgreSQL
SQLite
MSSQL
MongoDB

Cloud & infra

Azure
Docker
Nginx
Linux
Cloudflare

Systems & hardware

Embedded
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
LoRa
Reverse engineering

AI & LLMs

MCP servers
Claude
GitHub Copilot
Codex
Self-hosted models

Certified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900).

Projects

gifs.optocloud.no

building

A self-hosted media backend for Discord, with unguessable URLs, content-addressed storage and an authenticated upload API. Runs on my NAS behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.