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.
Principal Software Engineer
Optum
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.
Principal Software Engineer
John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, CA
Tech-lead for John Muir Health's software engineering team.
Vice President, Engineering, Co-founder
Jitterbit
Returned to lead engineering for this cloud-based data integration company.
Team Lead
Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Led the Genome Portal team in building tools for researchers to access and analyze large genomic datasets.
Chief Software Architect, Co-founder
Jitterbit
Co-founded Jitterbit and served as Chief Software Architect.
Software Engineer (Scientific Data Mgmt Research Group)
Lawrence Berkeley Lab / NERSC
Worked on clustering algorithms, compressed bitmap indexes, and distributed systems for large-scale scientific data management.
Software Engineer (Visiting Researcher)
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Nuclear Science Division
Developed data visualization tools and early web services for nuclear structure data.
M.Sc. Physics
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Coursework and thesis completed in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Thesis supervised by Nobel Laureate Prof. George Smoot.