I’m Jone Vassbø. I live in Sandnes, and I’m passionate about efficient software development. I currently develop software for fish farming (work) and kindergartens (hobby).

I’m passionate about creating stuff and getting things done (ref David Allen). I started out as an automatician, wiring stuff from ships to control systems. I quickly moved towards control systems, where I found my passion in software. I made my first software for a customer when I was working for Apply. It was level monitoring and alerting for Halliburton’s mud tanks all around Norway. Commissioning involved a lot of traveling and therefore an exciting experience and adventures.

The early years of my software development I spent programming PLC, HMI and SCADA systems. The systems varied a lot, here are some examples:

  • Ventilation systems (Hospital in Stavanger)
  • Lighting rigs to be used on e.g. football fields (TLS)
  • Water and sewage systems (IVAR)
  • Landbased fish farming for testing of feed (Skretting)
  • Unit for injecting nitrogen into cement (Halliburton)
  • SCADA system for controlling asphalt production (Lemminkäinen)
  • LNG gas distribution system e.g. Halhjem ferry pier (GasNor)

Programming these systems was a time-consuming job, with a large degree of repetitive work. This made me think of ways to speed up the process, and my focus shifted towards tooling. The tooling made it possible to convert a specification from the customer in Excel, to nearly runnable code. First off, I used VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel, then moved on to a .Net application. As the tooling evolved, I ended up using more time on the tool than the production code. The auto generated code was fast to create, and the errors during commissioning decreased a lot!

After starting out with .Net, my interest shifted towards high-level languages and programming. The eagerness to learn more, motivated me to pursue a bachelor’s degree in both Electrical and Software engineering and a master’s degree in computer science at NTNU in Trondheim.

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