Technical leadership & software engineering
Vardevs is a consulting company founded by Viktor Varland, a technical leader and software engineer with 20 years of experience and 10 years of consulting.
I help organisations build teams, ship products, and make sound technical decisions. My background spans media platforms serving millions of readers, open-source health software used across 80+ countries, and everything in between.
Tech lead, team lead, and engineering management for distributed teams. I build teams that ship reliably and grow their people.
Frontend architecture at scale — design systems, platform frameworks, and the standards and processes that keep large codebases healthy.
Senior full-stack development with deep frontend expertise. From prototyping to production, solo or embedded in your team.
Hosting, servers, DNS, email, backups — full managed infrastructure for organisations that want a single point of contact.
Tech Lead & Team Lead / Engineering Manager
Leading a team of 10 building the publication systems that power 150+ news outlets across Norway and Denmark. Managing 5 vendor CMS platforms and an in-house CMS built for mobile-first breaking news reporting. Member of the technical advisory board responsible for strategic technology choices across the company.
Frontend Architect / Team Lead / Group Lead
Led frontend architecture for the world's largest open-source health information management system. Oversaw 35+ web apps, 12+ libraries, and 6+ CLI tools. Managed a group of 18 frontend engineers and co-managed the product stream for 25+ applications and the developer platform used by hundreds of developers worldwide.