Perspektiver på IT-utviklingslærlinger i offentlig sektor
JavaZone 2024 · Oslo Spektrum · with Dervis Mansuroglu
Apprenticeships as a path into software development in the public sector, from the apprentice’s side and the engineering lead’s.
Lucas Bateson
Software for understanding systems.
Simulation, infrastructure, and numerical methods. Two years shipping NAV’s pension frontend, now heading into Cybernetics and Robotics at NTNU.
Trondheim, Norway
Now
Preparatory engineering year (forkurs) at NTNU.
Building kiln, the successor to Foundry.
Extending Propagator toward guidance and navigation.
Updated October 2026
Talks
Projects
Oxidize
Real-time voxel rendering as a performance study.
Chunked world representation with dynamic meshing.
Mesh generation pipeline optimized for real-time updates.
Performance profiling under varying world sizes.
Propagator
Composable state propagation for physical systems.
RK4 numerical integration with adaptive stepping.
Composable force pipeline — gravity, drag, thrust.
Environment and reference frame modeling.
More projects
Foundry Self-hosted deployment, end to end. Archived, succeeded by kiln. N-Body Long-term stability in gravitational simulation. Neural-Nets Neural networks from first principles. Deadreckon Guidance systems under uncertainty.This site builds on GitHub Actions and deploys to Cloudflare Pages.
Work
Apprentice Software Developer
NAV IT · 2024–2026
Pension frontend in production, with strict requirements for correctness, accessibility, and long-term maintainability. Completed apprenticeship with fagprøve (trade certification).
Software Development Intern
Visma, Intility, Glasspaper · 2023–2024
Data analysis, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling across short-term placements.
Programming Instructor
Oslo Kommune
Teaching programming to children through hands-on projects.
Education
NTNU
Preparatory engineering year (forkurs) · 2026–2027
Fyrstikkalleen VGS
Information Technology and Media Production · 2022–2024