Hello! I'm Ola! Nice to meet you!

👉 I have a B.Sc. in informatics (computer science), and currently I am a student at NTNU persuing a M.Sc. in informatics, specializing in game technology. I'm writing a thesis about a mobile game I am developing together with a co-author, which aims to get the player to be more active and go outside.

My bachelor's thesis was done in collaboration with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, on the topic of reliable communication protocols for use in constrained military networks. The code and report can be found here.

🧑‍🎓 During my time as a student, I have been involved in various technology-focused projects. From designing a computer processor from scratch based on the MOS Technology 6502 at Hackerspace NTNU as an educational tool to explain computer technology, all the way to writing embedded system software code for satellites at Orbit NTNU. I also spent half a year at Tokyo Institute of Technology as an exchange student. I would love to go back some day!

I have previously worked as an intern at Bekk, a company focusing on IT, design, and business management consulting. I worked as a full-stack developer on one of their internal projects. Moreover, during the summer of 2022 I had an internship at The Norwegian Tax Administration as a front-end developer for their summer AI project.

Some of my interests are:

• 💻 Full-stack development (Mostly React or Next.js + TypeScript for frontends and Spring + Kotlin for backends)
• 👨‍🔬 High-performance, low-level programming in C and C++
• 🚀 Simulation and computer graphics
• 🎮 Game development & serious games mostly with well-established engines like Unity and Godot

Psst! Want to get in touch? 👉 ola <at> horgjacobsen <dot> no