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Aleksander Tjensvoll Obrestad

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Aleksander Tjensvoll Obrestad

Over a ten-month period, contributed to kartverket.dev and related repositories by delivering 32 features and resolving 11 bugs, focusing on catalog management, risk assessment, and security governance. Developed and enhanced backend and frontend systems using TypeScript, Kotlin, and React, implementing features such as catalog entity management, risk scorecard enforcement, and security dashboards. Improved CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment, and configuration management, while modernizing UI components with Material UI and localization support. Addressed security vulnerabilities through dependency updates and schema migrations, and streamlined infrastructure by decommissioning legacy GCP workflows, resulting in improved system reliability, maintainability, and cross-team collaboration.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

74%Features

Repository Contributions

85Total
Bugs
11
Commits
85
Features
32
Lines of code
48,007
Activity Months10

Work History

July 2026

3 Commits • 3 Features

Jul 1, 2026

July 2026 monthly summary: Decommissioned the GCP deployment pipeline to finalize migration away from GCP, reducing CI/CD maintenance and simplifying infrastructure. Added feature-flag driven backend selection for risk scorecard templates on the frontend, enabling seamless switching between native and proxy backends and introducing a proxy endpoint for template initialization. Backend expanded with a new Init-RiSc Templates API endpoint to fetch predefined templates from GitHub, including support for specific git references, template ID validation, and extended service layers. These efforts collectively improve deployment flexibility, accelerate template provisioning, and reduce operational overhead.

June 2026

3 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026: Strengthened governance for risk scoring by delivering a new Risk Scorecard capability that enforces mandatory predefined risk scenarios. Implemented a UI banner prompting administrators to add scenarios, integrated a backend service to fetch scenarios from GitHub, added feature flags, and implemented banner dismissal state management with a validation gate that blocks approvals until scenarios are addressed. UI refinements include hiding the banner when no scenarios are available and updating tooltip guidance and translations. This work improves data integrity, reduces misconfigurations, and lays groundwork for consistent risk assessment in production.

May 2026

10 Commits • 5 Features

May 1, 2026

During May 2026, the team delivered a focused set of features and stability improvements across the risk-scorecard frontend and backend, with clear business value in naming consistency, richer action metadata, security posture, and UX reliability. Key frontend deliverables included standardizing naming to Operasjonell RoS across all entity types, introducing a new action comment field and propagating it through the UI, and a UI fix to ensure consistent rendering across browsers. Backend work introduced optional action comments with a schema migration to version 5.4, along with security hardening and dependency upgrades. UI/UX polish included a Firefox-specific fix to hide the scroll-fade gradient when the animation-timeline feature is not supported. The RiSc risk assessment configuration was updated to reflect new approval requirements. Major bug fixes addressed include handling an empty path in getValue (ensuring the original object is returned) and cross-browser gradient stability. Overall, these efforts improved stability, security posture, governance consistency, and cross-browser user experience, while showcasing strength in TypeScript/Backstage plugin development, schema migrations, and secure software practices.

April 2026

10 Commits • 6 Features

Apr 1, 2026

Concise monthly summary for 2026-04 focusing on key business-value features and major bug fixes across four repositories: kartverket/backstage-plugin-risk-scorecard-backend, kartverket/backstage-plugin-risk-scorecard-frontend, kartverket/kartverket.dev, spire-test/kv-ros-test-5. Highlights include authentication warmup in GCP deployment workflow, extensive security vulnerability remediation via dependency updates, build-system cleanups for maintainability, frontend theming improvements enabling dark mode, security hardening, terminology alignment, and RiSc/configuration enhancements relevant to governance and approvals. Summarizes delivered items, impact, and technical skills demonstrated.

March 2026

16 Commits • 4 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary focusing on delivering business value, UX improvements, and frontend modernization across kartverket.dev and regelrett. The month included security-focused UX improvements for security forms, improved access messaging, membership pre-checks, loading indicators, and navigation improvements, plus per-form metrics and translations to reduce user friction. Catalog and Groups UI enhancements added optional descriptions, a new criticality field, and a custom GroupProfileCard, improving governance and discoverability. A wide-scale UI framework migration to MUI v7 modernized the frontend (with a controlled rollback path to maintain stability). The Functions Page gained a loading state to improve perceived performance. In regelrett, context metrics were corrected by grouping by formId to ensure accurate metrics. These efforts reduced unauthorized access friction, improved data quality and governance visibility, and modernized the UI while maintaining stability during upgrades.

February 2026

20 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary focusing on delivering a robust, scalable catalog and function-management experience across kartverket.dev and regelrett, with a strong emphasis on user experience, data integrity, and flexible authentication. Highlights include a UX overhaul for the Functions page, enhanced catalog form handling, and API improvements that increase discoverability and reliability.

January 2026

17 Commits • 6 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance: Delivered foundational enhancements across kartverket's catalog, UI, and data access surfaces, enabling end-to-end function management, improved discoverability, and broader audience accessibility. Also expanded data accessibility with CSV exports and external group data endpoints, strengthening cross-team collaboration and governance.

December 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 (2025-12) performance summary focusing on feature delivery and code quality improvements. Delivered Function entity management in the catalog with a dedicated Function kind, processor, and schema validation, establishing robust ownership and system relationships. Also performed targeted cleanup of configurations, simplifying app-config and removing unused references, setting the stage for scalable governance and downstream workflows.

November 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Month: 2025-11 — Security, reliability, and developer experience improvements in kartverket.dev. Delivered a Security Champion framework and documentation resources, hardened CI permissions to close a code-scanning gap, and removed an unnecessary proxy endpoint, enhancing security posture and maintainability. These changes improve governance, deployment security, and component visibility across groups and domains, contributing to faster, safer releases.

October 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-10: Delivered Catalog Relation Integrity Monitoring and Alerts feature for kartverket.dev, including a monitoring backend that periodically checks for broken catalog relations, plus a dedicated notifications route and a sidebar item to surface issues for proactive remediation. Implemented automatic notifications to relevant users when issues are detected, improving observability and response times. Fixed a quality issue in InfoBox Copy Correction: corrected the typo 'a set entites' to 'a set of entities' in documentation/text. Overall, these efforts enhanced system reliability, visibility into data integrity problems, and professionalism of UI/docs.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness93.2%
Maintainability86.6%
Architecture86.6%
Performance86.4%
AI Usage39.8%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSDockerfileGoJSONJavaJavaScriptKotlinTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API designAPI developmentAPI integrationBackend DevelopmentBackstageBackstage Plugin DevelopmentCI/CDCSSCloud DeploymentContainerizationDatabase ManagementDevOpsDockerDocumentationFront End Development

Repositories Contributed To

7 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

kartverket/kartverket.dev

Oct 2025 Jul 2026
8 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptTypeScriptYAMLCSSJSON

Technical Skills

Backend DevelopmentBackstage Plugin DevelopmentDatabase ManagementDocumentationFront End DevelopmentFrontend Development

kartverket/backstage-plugin-risk-scorecard-frontend

Apr 2026 Jul 2026
4 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScriptTypeScriptJSONYAML

Technical Skills

CSSReactTypeScriptdependency managementfront end developmentplugin development

kartverket/backstage-plugin-risk-scorecard-backend

Apr 2026 Jul 2026
3 Months active

Languages Used

GoJavaKotlinYAMLDockerfileJSON

Technical Skills

CI/CDCloud DeploymentDevOpsKotlinbackend developmentbuild configuration

spire-test/kv-ros-test-5

Apr 2026 May 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

YAML

Technical Skills

YAMLconfiguration managementdata encryptionrisk assessmentrisk managementsecurity configuration

kartverket/regelrett

Feb 2026 Mar 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

Kotlin

Technical Skills

API developmentKotlinbackend developmenttesting

kartverket/frisk-frontend

Jan 2026 Jan 2026
1 Month active

Languages Used

JavaScriptTypeScript

Technical Skills

API integrationReactbackend developmentfront end developmentfrontend development

kartverket/frisk-backend

Jan 2026 Jan 2026
1 Month active

Languages Used

Kotlin

Technical Skills

API integrationKotlinbackend development