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From one platform to another

  • 26/10/202019/10/2020
  • by Martin Ehrnst

I was 20 years old when I entered a pink building in Oslo for my first (real) job interview. After only one conversation, I was offered a job, and I accepted it on the spot. Little did I knew that I was going to work for this company called Intility for 14 years.

Me 20 years old looking for a hair dresser in Paris

Opportunities and growth

14 years is a very long time, but not that long considering the circumstances. Of course, I have considered a move earlier, but I’m glad I waited this long.

When I accepted the offer in 2007. Intlity had around 80 full-time employees. Today, a little more than a decade later, they have around 400 employees. Own their own building in the heart of Oslo and the name of a football (soccer) stadium.

Since 2007 I have been trusted with a variety of responsibilities, the opportunity, and backing to form my own career. Resulting in international speaking gigs and two Microsoft MVP awards.
I am very grateful to have played a part in this journey, but this is strange times. Working from home since March gave me a lot of time to think and I believe I made the correct choice.

Platforms are the future

Intility has grown from an IT outsourcing and hosting provider to becoming a platform for companies wanting to grow, based on technology.

I believe that technology platforms are going to shape the future. And when I was offered a job at yet another successful, Norwegian technology platform I wanted to join.
I am happy to announce I have accepted a position as TechLead for platforms at Vipps.
Vipps is a Technology and identity platform which has revolutionized how we look at B2c and friend payments in Norway and are now expanding to Europe with their mobile payment solution.
Not knowing what to expect, I am surely looking forward to joining another Norwegian tech rocket. Working with the technology I love.

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2018 summary

  • 20/12/201820/12/2018
  • by Martin Ehrnst

2018 – what a year. Besides being the busiest year in my career for a long time, I have had alot of fun doing it!

During 2018 I have used most of my time trying to tame the (in lack of better words) ‘beast’ that Microsoft cloud is. I have spent noumerous hours deep diving in to Azure and Microsoft partner portals REST APIs. As well as developing new services for my employer.

Community

Besides maintaining this blog as my personal libary of technical documentation. Another goal is to provide good content back to the community I’m a part of.

In 2016 I decided to try more ways of contributing to the communtity. One of the things was to contribute to open source, and another was to present at various events.
2018 turned out to be the year for presentations.

  • Nordic Infrastructure conference
  • Azure User Group Norway
  • SquaredUp for hosting expert panel at Microsoft Ignite
  • Approved Consulting for hosting SCOM Day
  • SquaredUp for monitoring panel at Experts Live Europe
  • Microsoft Tech Summit Oslo

I would like to thank each and every one that came to my presentations, and to the organisers for your trust and opportunity.

Blog statistics

For those interested. The last year I have written 17 posts – thats not enough, hopefully I can produce some more written content next year.

In total 14.500 users have visited adatum.no. This results of 23.000 page views. Thats an increase of 55% in unique users since last year. Great!
The most popular post is actually about SCOM REST API Interfaces with a total of 1200 views. Second best performing post is Creating Azure AD Application registration using Powershell with just over 1100 views.

Twitter is by far the social with the most referrers, but most traffic is generated by organic search.

2019

The prospect of 2019 looks busy! I’m confident that community will be a priorty, but I might need to cut back on presentations.
2019 is the year where Microsoft brings Azure to Norway with two regions. I am really looking forward to working with customers making the correct choises on their journey to public cloud. This is going to be a lot of work and great fun, but we should still be pragmatic to the choices we make.

Thanks for following. Merry christmas!

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Merry Christmas 2017

  • 21/12/201720/12/2017
  • by Martin Ehrnst

Christmas and new year is just around the corner. I am wishing all my readers and followers a merry christmas, and a happy new year.

highlights from 2017:

  • 14000 blog visitors, around 40 a day
  • 22 published blog posts
  • Top Post: Web API for System Center Operations Manager with 1300 views
    • SCOM web api have almost 200 downloads and confirmed 4 installations in production.
  • 2 Conferences attended
    • Presenting at one. Definitely one of the coolest things from 2017

Thanks to all colleagues, community members, friends and others who have helped out during the year.

You should expect the blog to go a bit dead the next weeks, but who knows, maybe I will finish some of the drafts lying around.

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