Core Developer at Opera Software
Norway
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- Core Developer at Opera Software ASA
- Owner at Herland Software (Sole Proprietorship)
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- Unix developer at Opera Software ASA
- Research Assistant at Queen's University
- Teaching Assistant at Queen's University
- Education
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- Queen's University
- Viken Folkehøgskole
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Johan Herland’s Summary
Experienced Unix Developer, Web Developer, and Web Administrator with good knowledge of software design and web standards. Passion for designing and implementing elegant and useful (software) solutions to challenging problems. Always interested in new challenges within Software Engineering.
Johan Herland’s Specialties:
C++, C and Python. XML, HTML and CSS. Linux.
Johan Herland’s Experience
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Core Developer
Opera Software ASA
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPERA; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Developing core infrastructure of the Opera Web Browser. Analyzing problems and designing solutions; implementing solutions in C++.
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Owner
Herland Software (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — Present (5 years)
Developing web sites for customers. Administration of web, email and domain services. Maintenance of web sites.
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Unix developer
Opera Software ASA
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPERA; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 3 months)
Developing customized versions of the Opera Web Browser for mobile customers. Analyzing problems and designing solutions; implementing solutions and customer requests in C++.
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Research Assistant
Queen's University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
April 2003 — August 2003 (5 months)
Developed software for "Deep Green", a pool/billiards system for human and robotic competition.
Research project in robotics and machine vision affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Low-level programming in C and higher level programming in C++.
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Teaching Assistant
Queen's University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)
Assisted undergraduate students on laboratory assignments in a course on Data Structures and Algorithms.
Answered questions and helped students gain understanding in areas such as Java programming, software usage (Borland JBuilder), and also the concepts taught in the course.
Johan Herland’s Education
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Queen's University
B.Sc. , Computer Engineering , 2000 — 2004
Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Computer Engineering, Software Option.
Received Dean's Award (above 80% grade average) in 2002 and 2003. Final standing: 84% grade average.
4-year intensive program with a final-year thesis project.
Thesis Project: "Robot Pool 'Straight-Shot' Planner and Executor"; part of a larger endeavour in robotics and machine vision on creating a pool-playing robot. Developed two calibration processes for Pool Robot with approx. 10 000 lines of code in C and C++.
Focus on software architecture, software development and real-time systems.
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Viken Folkehøgskole
N/A , Music , 1999 — 2000
Field of concentration: Jazz/Pop/Rock - Jazz Piano.
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Johan Herland’s Interests:
Open source software, the Internet as a cultural and technological phenomenon, digital photography, jazz in general and jazz piano in particular.
Johan Herland’s Groups:
IEEE, NITO
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