Asaut Mjølne Söderbom is a senior developer at SpareBank 1 Utvikling, Oslo. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

He has worked as a developer and team lead since 2006. He has previously worked in-house at FINN and TietoEVRY, but also worked several years as a consultant - both independently and at Bouvet. He worked 12 years as a founder and developer in a startup, cityhotels.com, which was a hotel room portal in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The company was sold in 2018 to HotelOnline Inc.

Asgaut has been passionate about pair programming and team collaboration throughout his career. He is focused on fast feedback loops, continuous learning, flow, focus, code quality, and eliminating waste in the teams he works in. He also works across the organization with coaching - both technically and in agile efficiency. Asgaut has worked closely with researchers at SINTEF in his work in recent years.

In recent years, Asgaut has given talks both internally and externally, especially around pair programming, flow, focus, and frequent deployments to production. Asgaut shares a lot internally within the company and participates in groups trying to improve culture and collaboration. He also writes annual articles about the work he and the team are doing. Asgaut also works with developers from other organizations to improve his knowledge.