Helgi Skjortnes

I'm Helgi, Senior .NET Developer and Head of Integrations at SpareBank 1, working in the Norwegian financial sector. Outside that I take on freelance work: backend systems and integrations, data platforms, and the AI and infrastructure pieces that have taken up most of this year. Over the last decade I've built ERP systems, CRM integrations, marketplace platforms, analytics warehouses and agent orchestrators.

My background is self-taught. I started from a YouTube video about making games, got hooked, and never looked back. That path through restaurant ownership, sales, and eventually software consulting means I understand both the code and the business side of what I build.

When I'm not writing code for clients, I run a homelab that's probably more infrastructure than one person needs: a Proxmox cluster, around sixty containers across fifteen stacks, ZFS storage, Cloudflare tunnels, the whole thing managed with OpenTofu. My current obsession is Hrolbot, an autonomous AI agent system where Claude Code workers coordinate through a message mesh to write and review real code.

I'm based in Ålesund, Norway. I work with clients worldwide and I'm always interested in integration challenges, backend systems, and automation work.