Vetle Bu Solgård

Consultant at Bekk since 2018

1. 2026 – now

   Maritime sector

   Building a foundation for scaling AI across the company, ensuring governance structures and return on investment.

2. 2023 – 2026

   Public welfare

   Tech lead

   Cross-functional product team making the day easier for sick-leave case workers.

3. 2020 – 2023

   Bank and finance

   Built a B2B portal where vendors and dealers create and manage loan and leasing applications. Took part in product decisions with the product owner and the business.

4. 2018 – 2020

   Media sector

   Responsible for the streaming app on Android TV and the client's own Android streaming box, from design to production.

5. 2016 – 2017

   Consultancy

   Summer job

   A math exam-help prototype for lower secondary students.

6. 2016 – 2017

   Network startup

   Part-time and summer internship

   Network monitoring tools and visualizations.

Articles and talks

• 2024Product owner vs. product leader
• 2024From output to outcome
• 2021Evolution of how we host our applications
• 2020Talk: How Kotlin coroutines work (Bekk fagdag, and a media client in 2019)
• 2019Coroutines intro · Dissecting the very important details of coroutines · Coroutines, channels and flow

Robots before it was cool

• 2018MSc Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Oslo. Thesis on how a four-legged robot learns to walk with reinforcement learning, by designing the state and reward signals it optimises for.
• 2015Exchange at San José State University.
• 2016Led the student association for nanoelectronics and robotics, and the Department of Informatics football club.