My day-job role is to help the technical part of Schibsted News Media grow, for all definitions of growth. I help enact our strategies by removing road blocks for developers, creating new roads and bridges, and sometimes speed limit signs. I facilitate teams, and keep an eye out for potential problems and solutions.
My volunteer job is founder & chair of the Tekna Network for Developers.
Creator of Derw.
If you want my help, or just to chat, please feel free to reach out to me! Not sure what I could help with? Scroll down to the next header, and I've got a list of things that I'm good at helping with.
- 📫 How to reach me: On LinkedIn, or noah.hall at hey.com. Don't know me yet? Feel free to say hi!
- 📍Location: Oslo
- 🤺 Sparring - bounce ideas off of me!
- 🃏 Out of the box ideas, and being a devil's advocate
- 💬 Sharing my personal opinions and thoughts
- 🔭 Reviewing code
- 🏗️ Reviewing architecture
- 💻 💻 💻 Mob programming or pair programming
- ✍️ Writing proposal and (eventually) decision documents
- 📰 Finding and summarizing relevant tech articles, and news
- 📘 Blogs
- 🖋️ Taking notes
- 🙌 Facilitation of meetings
- 👷 Planning and running workshops, events and meetups
- 🏃Hackdays, hackweeks, or just shared 10% projects
- 👥 Helping developers talk to editorial
- 🤝 Connecting people
- 🕙 10% ideas
- 🎌 Expanding healthy tech culture
- ❓ Interviewing -- reach out if you want tips on what to look for, or take-homes
- #️⃣ Slackbots
- 🤖 OpenAI
- ➡️ Types, and functional programming patterns
- 📖 Open source
- 🎨 Code quality, and recommended practices
- 🗺️ API design
- 📦 Packaging
- 🏗️ Build tools
- 🐧 Linux, and ChromeOS
- 🎌 Programming language design
- ⬜ ⬛ 🟩 AppScript, and automating things with Google Sheets
- 🤝 Helping people! This is my biggest driver, and almost everything I do is because I think it could help people.
- 📚 I want to know a little bit of everything, and dive deep into things I find useful or interesting.
- 🚒 I love fixing things when stuff goes wrong. I always wanted to be a firefighter as a kid. Sometimes I still do.
- 💬 I'm always up for a chat, whether it's about work, the world in general, or the life experience.
- 🖊️ Writing, documenting, communicating.
- 🧠 I am biased, but try to be objective and reflect the opinions of the org. If I ever give my personal opinion, I label it clearly!
- 🔥 I love productive disagreements, where there is respect, and passion. Agreeing all the time isn't healthy. You won't offend me if you disagree with me.
- 🤔 I like to think about things over for a long time, then get things done quickly. I value pragmatism, and don't let perfect become the enemy of good.
- Welsh is my mother tongue
- English is my backup mother tongue, and my preferred work language (though I speak American English, I'm Welsh)
- Swedish is roughly B2 reading and listening, less good speaking or writing. I am shy in Swedish. Can watch movies or TV fine and understand everything. Dialects though... that's a hard one.
- Norwegian is similar to Swedish, though I do end up speaking Svorsk a little. I am shy in Norwegian too.
- I know enough French to interview a Swiss village of only elderly French speakers, but it takes a while for me to get back into it.
- My Spanish is at the "I can get by but don't ask my life story" level, and latin-America focused.
You made it to the end! Congrats! Here's one random fact about me: I lived in an abandoned church for 4 years, while running a startup. It was so cold that we had to take 10 minute breaks to hold our hands in front of a fire, but we got stuff done.