Portrait of Håkon Berntsen, Senior AI Architect

// CV

Curriculum Vitae

Senior AI Architect · CTO · CEO · COO

email [email protected]

phone +47 900 39 911

based Langesgate 8, 3210 Sandefjord, Norway

At a glance

20+

years experience

5

active leadership roles

2005

first AI work

100%

GDPR / UK DPA grade

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Current Roles

Active leadership across healthcare AI, applied AI research, and platform engineering.

CTO

Current

Eir Tec LTD (UK)

Companies House 15309722 · 20 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU

Lead the UK technical architecture for a home-based QEEG + Explainable AI mental-health diagnostics platform. Cloud-native on Azure UK South with single-tenant deployments, live clinical transcription, AI-generated SOAP / referral / summary notes, and four-channel QEEG headband ingestion.

Outcomes: result turnaround ~7 minutes vs 7-10 weeks · 44% diagnostic accuracy improvement for ADHD · 87% cost reduction vs traditional EEG pathway.

Azure UK South Single-tenant UK GDPR / DPA 2018 WorkOS Explainable AI ASR LLM SOAP gen QEEG ingest

eirtech.co.uk →

CEO & Co-founder

Current

Eir Tec AS (NO)

Foretaksregisteret 936 876 242 · Leikvollgata 69, 3208 Sandefjord

Norwegian sister company in the same group. Commercial lead and Norway / EU expansion of the EirTech platform. Co-founders: Dr Monica Berntsen (CSO, HCPC-registered psychologist, PhD neuroscience, ADHD/ASD specialist) and Ignacio Zuniga (Group CEO, ethical-AI / investment banking background).

Commercial lead EU expansion Group strategy GDPR Healthcare AI Co-founder

COO & Systems Architect

Current

MediVox AS · part of Skjld AS

AI for medical documentation. Local language models combined with ASR for clinician dictation, structured-note generation, and GDPR-compliant deployment for Norwegian healthcare workflows.

Local LLM ASR Clinical NLP GDPR Systems architecture Norwegian

CTO

Current

Skjld Labs AS

Applied AI R&D group. Machine learning, autonomous-agent research, and AGI alignment work. Internal tools and prototypes used across the group's portfolio.

Applied AI ML research Agents AGI alignment Evaluation harnesses Prototyping

Co-founder

Current

Jaydus.AI

Multi-LLM platform unifying GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5 and 14+ models behind a single workspace. Includes chat, image generation, voice tools, and custom assistants. SOC 2 certified.

Multi-LLM GPT-5 Claude 4 Gemini 2.5 Voice Image gen SOC 2

CEO & Founder

Since 2002

InfoDesk AS

Full-service IT solutions: web platforms, hosting, and penetration testing. Microsoft Partner with enterprise Azure access. The long-running practice that supplies infrastructure and security expertise into every other portfolio company.

Microsoft Partner Enterprise Azure Web platforms Hosting Pen-testing Consulting

Chairman

Current

Open Info · non-profit

Global open-source and open-AI advocacy. Free courses and consulting for individuals and organizations exploring responsible, accessible AI.

Non-profit Open source Open AI Education Advocacy

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Previous Experience

Managing Director

Hammerfestingen AS

Local newspaper in Hammerfest, Norway's far north. Operations, digital transition; acquired by Amedia.

2017 · acquired by Amedia

Healthcare-IT Systems Developer

Helsenett Øst

DIPS administrator, early career.

Early career

Founder

ZecureCode AS

Cybersecurity firm. Penetration testing and secure-development advisory.

Founder

AI / Architecture Advisor

ReadySOFT AS

AI integration and software architecture guidance.

Advisory

// 03 · recurring stack

The same backbone. Different verticals.

I architect new AI products faster because the substrate doesn't change — only the domain.

// PRODUCT

Domain surfaces

Clinician dashboards Patient apps Multi-tenant admin Audit Compliance shells

// AI

Reasoning & perception

LLMs (GPT-5 / Claude / Llama / Mistral) Autonomous agents ASR (Whisper) Explainable AI NLP RAG Evals

// PLATFORM

Substrate

Azure (UK South / EU) Single-tenant or shared K8s WorkOS / OAuth PostgreSQL Redis Terraform CI/CD GDPR / UK DPA / SOC 2

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Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

University of Oslo (UiO)

Foundations in algorithms, distributed systems, and software engineering.

Bachelor in Entrepreneurship

BI Norwegian Business School

Venture creation, finance, and the operating model behind a portfolio of companies.

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Certifications

Security, network, platform, and mobile credentials accumulated across the practice.

PEN-100 · Penetration Testing OWASP Web Security WEB-100 · Web App Security Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Cisco CCNA Cisco CCNP Android Developer Certification Google Android Certification

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Technical Expertise

// AI

Models, agents, and reasoning

  • · LLMs — GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral
  • · Autonomous AI agents — OpenClaw, LangChain
  • · ASR — Whisper
  • · NLP — Transformers, BERT, spaCy
  • · Deep learning — TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras
  • · AGI research / alignment
  • · RAG pipelines
  • · Evaluation harnesses
  • · Explainable AI

// DEV & ARCHITECTURE

Building & shipping

  • · Backend — Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, PHP / Laravel
  • · Frontend — React, Vue, TypeScript
  • · Mobile — Android, React Native
  • · Cloud — Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
  • · DevOps — Docker, CI/CD, Terraform
  • · Databases — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • · Single-tenant SaaS architectures

// SECURITY & INFRA

Defending the substrate

  • · Penetration testing — OWASP, Kali, Burp
  • · Network — Cisco CCNA / CCNP
  • · Compliance — GDPR, UK DPA 2018, SOC 2
  • · Identity — OAuth, SAML, JWT, WorkOS
  • · Encryption — TLS, PKI, HSM
  • · Monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana

// HEALTHCARE AI

Domain specifics

  • · Clinical transcription
  • · SOAP / referral / summary generation
  • · QEEG signal pipelines
  • · Explainable diagnostics
  • · Privacy-first anonymization

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Programming Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript Go Rust PHP Java C# SQL Bash

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Languages

Norwegian

// native

English

// fluent