Ulf Thorsen is a Senior Software Engineer at Piql AS, with a background as a Principal Engineer at EskoArtwork, Chief Architect at ProCaptura AS, and Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. Prior to their career in software engineering, Ulf served in the Royal Norwegian Navy as a Private First Class, developing software for Kobben-class submarines. Ulf holds an MSc in Technical Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.