I'm a senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience and a PhD in responsible technological innovation. My work sits at the intersection of software engineering, aquaculture, and sustainable technology.
What I Do
I build production-grade data platforms for the aquaculture industry, integrating systems like Fishtalk, Mercatus, IoT sensors, and ocean models. My tech stack centers on Rust and Python, with cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Currently at AquaCloud, I architect data pipelines and integrations for Norwegian salmon farmers.
Research
My PhD explored how technology adoption shapes regional industrial development, with a focus on the salmon farming industry in Norway, Australia, and the USA. I conducted 92 interviews and comparative case studies across three continents.
Thesis: The Evolution of Technological Trajectories: Responsible Innovation and Regional Industrial Path Development
Publications
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Lindfors, E. T. (2025). The Evolution of Technological Trajectories – Responsible Innovation and Regional Industrial Path Development in the Salmon Farming Industry. PhD thesis, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
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Hopp, J. Z., Coffay, M., & Lindfors, E. T. (2023). Inclusion in the global innovation system for CRISPR salmon in Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 77(1), 10-20.
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Lindfors, E. T. (2022). Radical path transformation of the Norwegian and Tasmanian salmon farming industries. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 9(1), 757-775.
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Lindfors, E. T., & Jakobsen, S.-E. (2022). Sustainable regional industry development through co-evolution. Marine Policy, 135, 104855.
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Fløysand, A., Lindfors, E. T., Jakobsen, S.-E., & Coenen, L. (2021). Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation. Sustainability, 13(1), 62.
Open Source
I maintain several open source projects:
- a2a-rs — Rust implementation of Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol
- rust-browser-mcp — MCP server for AI-powered web navigation
- roms-rs — Discontinuous Galerkin solver for coastal ocean modeling