Curriculum Vitae hjbrandt.me

Hans-Jakob Brandt

Founder, Hanlon — AI systems for small companies

I build AI systems with a designer's hand. Twenty years across disciplines where precision and taste decide the outcome — professional freestyle skiing, DJing, frontend development, design systems — now applied to redesigning how work gets done. Born in Nuuk, Greenland; based in Oslo, Norway.

2025 —

Founder · Hanlon, Oslo

Hanlon helps SMEs redesign how work gets done so AI absorbs the overhead, people keep the craft, taste, and judgment, and the capability stays in-house.

2022 — 2024

Senior Designer · Gyldendal Rettsdata, Oslo

Designer on the Rettsdata product team, leading design-system development (Judy) for the R3 legal reference platform.

2020 — 2022

UI/UX Designer · Vev, Oslo

Created Vev's visual design language and built the full component and pattern library in Figma (Silke); helped establish the product teams, their agile ceremonies, and the design process.

2018 — 2020

Front-end Developer · Making Waves, Oslo

Consultant. Clients: Entra, SATS, SAS, Ocean Data Foundation.

2010 — 2012

Community Planner · Very Agency, Oslo

Built Burn Energy as a brand in Norway in the snowboard and skateboard demographics — pro teams, community media, events.

2006 — 2014

Professional Athlete · Oakley, DaKine, Burn Energy

Freestyle skier competing in Slopestyle — European Open, World Cups, World Championships; featured in ski movies. Greenlandic champion in Slopestyle, covered three times by Sermitsiaq AG.

Ongoing

DJ · "Hans Hug"

Over a decade playing Oslo and Copenhagen — clubs, bars, basements, art galleries. Jæger Æmix #33 (2017).

2015 — 2018

BA, Interaction Design · Westerdals Oslo ACT

Naturally took the concept-developer, designer, and project-manager roles in projects.

2024

Judy & R3 · Rettsdata

Design system and comprehensive legal reference platform.

2022

Silke UI Design Kit · Vev

Style guide, Figma pattern library, React component library.

2020

Ocean Data Platform · Ocean Data Foundation

JAM-stack sites and data visualization — Gatsby, React, TypeScript, Mapbox GL, DeckGL.

2019

SATS Members App · SATS

React Native training app for SATS members.

2018

Smart databruk · Entra

Sensor-data visualization in React and D3 — user interviews, needs analysis, UI design.

2019

Speaking · Storbølgeblikk, Oslo

"Liberating data for one healthy ocean."