Kevin Simons

AI @Scrimba, former founder @Kitemaker, YC21 (acquired by ClickUp)

Founder

Kitemaker· Winter 2021🇳🇴 Oslo, Oslo, Norway

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ksimons

2025VP of Engineering· Scrimba

Founder · since 2019

Company

Scrimba

Role

VP of Engineering

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Oslo, Norway

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Kitemaker

A faster and more collaborative alternative to Jira for remote teams

Winter 2021

Experience

Career

Scrimba
VP of Engineering · Oslo, Norway · 2025 – Present
2025
ClickUp
Senior Engineering Manager · Oslo, Norway · 2024 – 2025
2024
Kitemaker
Founder
Founder and CTO · Oslo Area, Norway · 2019 – 2024
2019
Schibsted
Leave of absence · Oslo Area, Norway · 2019 – 2020
2019
Schibsted
Interim Head of Data & Insights · Oslo Area, Norway · 2018 – 2019
2018
Schibsted
Senior Engineering Manager, Insights · Oslo Area, Norway · 2018
2018
Schibsted Media Group
Senior Engineering Manager, Identity · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 2016 – 2018
2016
Telenor Digital
VP Strategic Engineering, Office of the CTO · Oslo Area, Norway · 2014 – 2016
2014
Telenor Digital
Tech Lead Firefox OS · Oslo Area, Norway · 2013 – 2014
2013
Telenor Digital
Tech Lead Comoyo View Devices · Oslo Area, Norway · 2012 – 2013
2012
Nokia
Team Lead, Qt JSON DB · Oslo, Norway · 2012
2012
Nokia
Principal Architect, Qt · Oslo, Norway · 2011 – 2012
2011
Nokia
Principal Technology Specialist, Services Architecture · Oslo, Norway · 2010 – 2011
2010
Nokia
Senior Engineer, Technology Strategy & Architecture · Burlington, MA, USA · 2008 – 2009
2008
Nokia
Senior Engineer, Enterprise Mobility · Burlington, MA, USA · 2007 – 2008
2007
Nokia
Senior Engineer, Emerging Technology · Brussels, Belgium · 2006 – 2007
2006
Nokia Research Center
Research Engineer · Burlington, MA, USA · 2004 – 2005
2004

Bio

Managed software development teams for about 10 years. Big believer in autonomous, cross-functional, self-organizing teams that are obsessed with delivering value to users.