Danial Sheikh

Danial Sheikh is an experienced technology professional currently serving as the Head of Engineering at Statens pensjonskasse since January 2025. As the founder of AppTek.no since 2011, Danial has extensive expertise in app development. Prior to this, Danial held the position of Senior Engineering Manager for Commercial at Oda from September 2021 to January 2025 and worked as Tech Lead and Senior Developer at Shortcut AS between August 2018 and August 2021. Earlier career highlights include roles as Office Manager at Rainbow Tekstil, iOS Expert at Aftenposten, and Scientific Systems Developer at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Oslo University Hospital, where Danial focused on scientific software development and computer vision for cancer cell analysis. Danial holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Imperial College London, earned in 2010.