2008— · Ongoing
Altinn & digital public systems
Architecture, authorization and development lessons from building important Norwegian digital infrastructure.
I started working with Altinn 2 in 2008. In 2015 I joined the work on Altinn 3, from its early stages and onwards through the development of the new platform.
From Altinn 2 to Altinn 3
My work with Altinn has given me experience with the long-term development of critical public digital services. The transition from Altinn 2 to Altinn 3 has involved modernization, new architectural choices and the development of a platform designed to work across the public sector.
I have been actively involved in a wide range of areas over the years. In recent years, my main focus has been authentication and authorization: how users and systems establish their identity, and how they receive the appropriate access to data and services.
Experience and reflections
This part of rtl.no is for personal technical reflections on architecture, authentication, authorization, modernization, platform development and what long-running systems can teach us.
Videos
How we build Altinn 3 in the cloud as open source
A presentation from NDC Oslo 2020 with Rune Tømmerås Larsen, Nina Kylstad and Stephanie Buadu about building Altinn Services 3.0 as a cloud platform and open source software. Duration: 1:00:13.
The history of Altinn – with a Lord of the Rings theme
From Altinn Coffee and the collaboration meeting with service owners and partners on 25 June 2026. I give an approximately 30-minute presentation on the history of Altinn, told with The Lord of the Rings as its recurring theme. The full recording runs for 41:24.
Opinions published here are my own. They are not official statements from Altinn, the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency or my employer.