Hallvard Olaisen

Experienced technology executive with deep expertise in AI, cloud, security, and software engineering.

I hold a Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

I am a technologist and product leader with more than 35 years of experience across cloud, AI, security and scale-up operations — from hands-on coding to board-level technology strategy. What truly defines me is my drive to keep evolving: building better systems, learning faster, and exploring technologies that expand what is possible.

Few shifts have been as transformative as AI. In recent years I have led the adoption of AI agents in software development, introduced AI-powered onboarding and contract analysis features, and implemented frameworks for human-in-the-loop validation and compliance reporting.

Throughout my career I have held roles as COO in a high-growth scale-up, CISO establishing information security governance from the ground up, and CTO modernizing large monolithic platforms into cloud-native architectures. I remain deeply technical and pragmatic, focused on delivering real value — fast, securely, and with purpose.

I have worked in both public and private sectors and with organizations such as Signicat, DNB/Vital and Accenture. Today I serve as CTO at House of Control, part of the Visma Group.

Currently working on

• Pandora — an experimental platform for AI-assisted compliance and software development workflows.

  The system orchestrates a set of specialized agents with clearly defined roles. Agents obtain factual information exclusively through tool execution, providing deterministic and verifiable sources of truth.

  AI Governance, Security and Safety are built into both the development process and the system itself — covering agent governance rules, audit trails, multi-tenant isolation, and human-in-the-loop controls at high-consequence decision points.

  Monitoring agents observe platform behaviour and can generate bug reports and feature requests as GitHub Issues, triggering automated workflows. Services and capabilities are exposed through an MCP server, allowing external AI systems to interact under the same governance constraints.

  The goal is not just AI assistance, but software systems that can observe themselves, report problems, and initiate their own improvement cycles.

• Regulatory technology (NIS2, DORA, GDPR, AI Act, Vendor Management, compliance reporting)

Software Engineering

Experience

• Responsible for AI, product, technology, security, and cloud teams
• Led migration from private cloud to AWS
• Led onboarding to Vismas Cloud Delivery program VCDM (ISO27001, ISAE 3402 type 2)
• Led modernizing of a large SaaS platform (~800k LOC)
• Introducing AI-assisted development workflows
• Built up internal tech organization

• Initiated public cloud project
• Implemented ISMS and security governance
• Led ISAE-3402 and ISAE-3000 audit programs

• Cloud transformation and security architecture
• Security architect on Equinor Azure migration

• Scaled delivery and operations from a small tech company to a major European digital identity provider
• Led multi-cloud strategy and migration – 2016–2020
• Key contributor in the implementation of SOC2 and ISO27001 programs
• Established Customer Success Function – 2016–2019
• Established ITIL Framework and Service Desk – 2008–2012

• Pension and insurance systems development
• Architecture and product development in .NET

• C++ enterprise systems
• Distributed backend systems

Contact

Email: Halola59@gmail.com

Phone: +47 92317378

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hallvardo