Henrik Nordberg is a Principal Engineer and technology leader with 20+ years of experience architecting high-performance data platforms and leading engineering teams in healthcare, genomics, and cloud integration. Proven success in building scalable, secure systems, modernizing DevOps pipelines, and mentoring engineers. Hands-on expertise in JavaScript, C++, Java, and large-scale data infrastructure.

2019 – Present
2019 – Present
Principal Software Engineer at Optum

Principal Software Engineer

Architected, developed, and operated the John Muir Health public website and critical internal applications, ensuring high availability and performance. Guided development towards resilient and secure software and introduced SCA and SAST into DevOps practices.

2016 – 2019
2016 – 2019
Principal Software Engineer at John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, CA

Principal Software Engineer

Tech-lead for John Muir Health's software engineering team.

2014 – 2016
2014 – 2016
Vice President, Engineering, Co-founder at Jitterbit

Vice President, Engineering, Co-founder

Returned to lead engineering for this cloud-based data integration company.

2008 – 2014
2008 – 2014
Team Lead at Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Team Lead

Led the Genome Portal team in building tools for researchers to access and analyze large genomic datasets.

1997 – 2008
1997 – 2008
Chief Software Architect, Co-founder at Jitterbit

Chief Software Architect, Co-founder

Co-founded Jitterbit and served as Chief Software Architect.

1997 – 1999
1997 – 1999
Software Engineer (Scientific Data Mgmt Research Group) at Lawrence Berkeley Lab / NERSC

Software Engineer (Scientific Data Mgmt Research Group)

Worked on clustering algorithms, compressed bitmap indexes, and distributed systems for large-scale scientific data management.

1995 – 1997
1995 – 1997
Software Engineer (Visiting Researcher) at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Nuclear Science Division

Software Engineer (Visiting Researcher)

Developed data visualization tools and early web services for nuclear structure data.

1996
1996
M.Sc. Physics at Lund University, Lund, Sweden

M.Sc. Physics

Coursework and thesis completed in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Thesis supervised by Nobel Laureate Prof. George Smoot.