# Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/erlend.sh
Headline: Whole Product Designer
Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway

## About

Bullish on kindness.

## Experience

- **VP of Community at Discourse** (2017 – 2019)
- **Developer Relations at Heroic Labs** (2021 – 2021)
- **Designer & Coordinator (Volunteer) at Ocean Legacy** (2007 – 2008)
  I started out with a simple mock concept, based off of a proven casual game element. When Joseph Gordon, the project manager and representative of Ocean Legacy gave me the green light for that design, I expanded on it as we expanded our team with other volunteer professionals.  During the course of the project I kept up with minor iterations on the design, while communicating as frequently as possible with the team and prospective associates. I was living in Chile (across the globe from Norway) at the time, so internet access was sometimes scarce.  Although the final project was somewhat lacking in polish and innovative design, it served its purpose perfectly as a campaign driver, and to this day it's excellent scoring makes it very worthwhile.
- **Project Lead (Volunteer) at Radakan** (2007 – 2009)
  Started out as a casual writer. Gradually worked my way up to responsibilities in management, and basically the whole year of 2008 I took charge of the project as 'Director', until the full design, codebase and staff changed hands again at the end of the year when I took off for my 4 month volunteer work in Ghana starting January 2009.
- **Community Manager (Volunteer) at jMonkeyEngine** (2009 – 2016)
  I've managed the jMonkeyEngine project since the start of the 3.0 version, which I introduced together with Kirill Vainer. Since then the team has grown from 2 to 8 people, all actively dedicating their time to develop a professional-grade, open source game engine.
- **Product Lead at Discourse** (2021 – 2021)
- **PR Manager (Volunteer) at JFusion** (2008 – 2008)
  I started out making general suggestions in management, pr and business. Shortly after some nice discussions with Marius we were putting the core team together, which later grow to become the most professional assembly of hobbyists I have ever had the privilege to work with.  While I started out doing mostly project co-ordination and community management, my responsibility gradually shifted into public relations, as I harvested a lot of contacts in the open source communities, getting in touch with prospective developers and affiliates, while generally spreading the word of JFusion.  When I went away for a 4 month stay in Ghana as a volunteer worker, my position in JFusion came to an unofficial halt.
- **Project Manager at WeWantToKnow AS** (2013 – 2014)
  Running campaigns & user testing and customer interaction.
- **Community Advocate at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.** (2015 – 2017)
- **Founder at Roomy** (2022 – present)
  I'm the founder and product director of Roomy, a comms platform for gardenable spaces.
- **Developer Relations at MeiliSearch** (2020 – 2020)

## Education

- **Vancouver Film School** — Game Design (2011 – 2012)
- **Molde VGS** — General Academics (2005 – 2008)
- **Vancouver Film School** — Game Design (interrupted) (2009 – 2009)

## Skills

- Communication
- Community Building
- Strategic Planning

## Publications

- Energy Realism — notes.erlend.sh (https://notes.erlend.sh/3mmjshzz6rs2b)
- Roomy basics — notes.erlend.sh (https://notes.erlend.sh/3mhgow4qrqk2m)
- Redd demokratiet til prisen av et svømmebasseng — notes.erlend.sh (https://notes.erlend.sh/3m6oz2inigk26)
- Bluesky should take on Substack — notes.erlend.sh (https://notes.erlend.sh/3lxpcc7e4es26)

## Other profiles

- github: https://github.com/erlend-sh