Norconsult Astando – Fullstack Developer

Context

My relationship with Norconsult Astando goes back to 2008–2009, when I worked with them as a consultant from Avega Group AB. Nearly a decade later they saw on LinkedIn that I had started freelancing and asked if I was available. I came back in 2018 to automate their deployments, and again in 2020 for fullstack development on their older systems.

Norconsult Astando develops GIS-based solutions for municipalities and infrastructure organisations. The systems I worked on were built on ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Web API and WCF services, with frontend components in JavaScript/TypeScript and KnockoutJS. Deployments ran through TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.

2018 — DevOps & backend

Problem

Deployments for the IsyRoad project were manual, took around 45 minutes per application instance and often went wrong.

Approach

Automation & DevOps

Introduced automated deployment pipelines using Octopus Deploy
Integrated TeamCity build steps with the deployment workflow
Standardised configuration and environment handling

Backend development

Worked on ASP.NET Web API and .NET Core services
Worked with NHibernate and WCF-based integrations

Results

Deployment time went from about 45 minutes to about 5 minutes per instance
Virtually no deployment-related errors afterwards
Automated deployment was then rolled out to Isy Map and Isy Case as well

2020 — Fullstack development on older systems

Implemented new features in ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET Web Forms applications
Improved structure and testability in the existing code
Built new UI functionality in TypeScript, JavaScript and KnockoutJS
Extended the deployment automation in Octopus Deploy and TeamCity