Asbjørn Ulsberg

After successfully campaigning for establishing Developer Experience as a business area with its own team of technical writers, developers and designers, I took the role of lead architect and developer of the Swedbank Pay Developer Portal, where documentation of all of Swedbank Pay's APIs and SDKs are published.

I contributed to the open source policy, design, architecture, infrastructure, and guiding principles of PayEx' and Swedbank Pay's “Design Guide”, a living style guide and design system for all of PayEx' and Swedbank Pay's web properties.

The design system is written in HTML and CSS, with (mostly) optional JavaScript for progressive enhancement. A single codebase is published to both design.swedbankpay.com and design.payex.com as two separate brands.

I established the policy and advocated for why we needed to implement “OKDay” – our implementation of "side project time" – in OKB. Through OKDay, we developed BIZI Deploy, a deployment tool similar to Octopus Deploy, to automate many of the error-prone, manual steps of our deployments. When OKB was acquired by PayEx in 2016, OKDay was implemented in PayEx under the new name “Innovation Day”, which is still practiced to this day.

Originally developed in OKB as a unifying front-end to all of PayEx' payment instruments, I became the lead developer and architect on PayEx Checkout 1.0 after OKB was acquired by PayEx. I refactored the codebase using principles of domain-driven design and lead a team of external developers as they took over the daily maintenance and feature development of the application.

Working on PayEx Checkout for so long made me a key player in the further development of the Checkout product… Show more

Originally developed in OKB as a unifying front-end to all of PayEx' payment instruments, I became the lead developer and architect on PayEx Checkout 1.0 after OKB was acquired by PayEx. I refactored the codebase using principles of domain-driven design and lead a team of external developers as they took over the daily maintenance and feature development of the application.

Working on PayEx Checkout for so long made me a key player in the further development of the Checkout product, finally resulting in Swedbank Pay Checkout 3.0 being released a few months before I left the company. Show less

I contributed to the architecture and API design of PayEx' new e-commerce payment gateway, codenamed “Breakfree”. Written from scratch in .NET Core, the new suite of APIs used hypertext as the engine of application state, and successfully replaced the old and retired SOAP-based APIs.

I was an architect and developer on OKB's e-commerce engine, written from the ground up to support a wide range of use cases, focusing on modularity, extensibility, and generic interfaces to support customer needs without being specially tailored to anyone or anything.

Storefront could handle anything from subscription-based shipments and payments to single purchases, all within the same generic code base. The engine was written in C# with a public RESTful API which was accessed by… Show more

I was an architect and developer on OKB's e-commerce engine, written from the ground up to support a wide range of use cases, focusing on modularity, extensibility, and generic interfaces to support customer needs without being specially tailored to anyone or anything.

Storefront could handle anything from subscription-based shipments and payments to single purchases, all within the same generic code base. The engine was written in C# with a public RESTful API which was accessed by everything from Storefront's own administrative GUI, and client's custom web pages, to third-party iOS applications. Show less

Initial lead developer and architect on Bama's B2B order portal, used by most of Bama's large business customers. The front-end was written in ASP.NET MVC, communicating with Bama's OLFI ERP system through its SOAP API. Being a complete rewrite and redesign of the old portal, it was a great success, increasing sales and customer satisfaction.

I co-developed the app used by Redningsselskapet (RS) on rescue missions at sea. The allowed RS to receive payments for rescue missions, sell life jackets, memberships, etc. integrated with an Ingenico mobile terminal and receipt printer, all controlled by the app.

The app was written in Objective-C and used BIZI Storefront's REST APIs to synchronize available products, prices, etc. With offline capabilities, the app allowed payments to be received with poor or no network coverage, and… Show more

I co-developed the app used by Redningsselskapet (RS) on rescue missions at sea. The allowed RS to receive payments for rescue missions, sell life jackets, memberships, etc. integrated with an Ingenico mobile terminal and receipt printer, all controlled by the app.

The app was written in Objective-C and used BIZI Storefront's REST APIs to synchronize available products, prices, etc. With offline capabilities, the app allowed payments to be received with poor or no network coverage, and would sync up with the server once the network was available. Show less

With BIZI Storefront as a foundation, we built a ticketing system serving most of Sweden's public transport companies, including SL, Värmlandstrafik, UL, etc.

As required by some of OKB's customers, I was responsible for OKB's compliance with the ISO/IEC 27000 standard. I wrote most of the policies and procedures, and implemented the necessary technical measures to ensure compliance.

I implemented the design and programmed Fortellerfestivalen's website every year from 2006 to 2013. The website was developed as plugins and themes on top of WordPress in PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I was the lead architect and developer of the self-service and order application for one of Norway's largest public transport companies, Ruter AS. Developed in a custom MVC framework on ASP.NET with NHibernate, HTML, CSS and jQuery, and under constant scrutiny and attacks by critics, hackers, and regular users, the portal stood firm with high reviews from some of Norway's most acknowledged security experts and user interface consultants.

I developed the whole site of Galligani.no, created in WordPress with self-written administration modules for Galligani's products, plugins for image manipulation, wishlist functionality, etc. The site was a great success and was in production for many years with little need for maintenance before it was replaced by a new site reimplementing most of the provided functionality.

I developed a large Service Handling System for Elfo AS where users, workshops, and stores could view, create and follow the status of different service requests made by individual customers. The system was in use by some of the largest jewelry and wristwatch chains in Norway.

I was part of a small team developing Norwegian Automobile Federation's system for managing customers, car services, and products nationwide for all of NAF's 495.000 members. The system was a great success, increasing productivity and easing the work of planning and organization, and was sold to the Danish Automobile Federation for managing their customers, car services, and products.

I developed and implemented the web design of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I was responsible for implementing the design and UX of Urørt 2.0 in ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I also co-developed much of the backend and database logic.

I took the lead to move NRK.no from non-semantic, presentational markup, to become one of the world's first media web sites with semantic, accessible and valid HTML. I also helped spread the knowledge about web standards in NRK.

I co-developed a web application that allowed users to search through the tax lists - published by the Norwegian Tax Department. Implemented in ASP.NET and SQL Server, we indexed 3.5 million database records and served over 40 requests per second at peak.