About

I'm a solution architect and developer with over 25 years in business intelligence, data warehousing, analytics, systems integration, and information management. I care about systems that are clear, durable, and actually used. For the past three years much of my focus has been AI: how to use it well, and what it's starting to mean for how we work and live.

My career has moved from large consulting and system-integration projects at Accenture, through specialist BI architecture work at Visma bWise, into founding and running Tallmaker AS. The common thread has been source analysis, data integration, warehouse architecture, and building analysis surfaces that business users can rely on.

My work currently splits between client delivery for a wealth advisory business (Qlik Cloud analytics, TimeXtender data warehouse architecture, and cloud migration) and product development around AI-assisted learning, documentation, and software delivery workflows.

Over the past three to four years I have spent a substantial amount of time researching and testing AI-powered tools and workflows. Part of that is practical experimentation with coding agents and natural-language-driven development; part of it is trying to understand what more automatic work could mean for my industry.

What interests me most isn't faster coding. It's how these tools might change the way analytics platforms and self-service BI get designed and rebuilt over time. The potential is real: quicker delivery and a more direct path from a business need to a working solution. But that only holds if the workflows around the tools are good enough.

I'm drawn to where structured data meets good tooling: making information accessible, automating the repetitive parts, and building things people actually want to use. The tools should serve the problem.

It also lines up strangely well with a lifelong love of science fiction. There's something peculiar about being around to watch the "fi" quietly fall away, as ideas that felt far-fetched growing up turn into ordinary science.

Outside of work I have a long-running interest in computing history, particularly the Amiga era and retrocomputing. There's something instructive about how constrained systems were made to do so much.

If you want to get in touch, email is best: henning@tolpinrud.no.