🖐️ Hi, I’m Benedicte (Queen) Raae.
My co-captain Ola, our Pirate Princess and I run Lilly Labs, a small dev studio in the old family factory we also call home. Located in cosy Rodeløkka, Oslo, Norway.
Currently living the fractional life as CTO at Whee!. I’m also dusting off the speaker badge. Open for internal talks on joyful AI usage for both devs and the non-techie crowd → Get in touch.
It all started roughly 30 years ago when my Norwegian teacher introduced a group of us girls to HTML + CSS in junior high. That spark led to a Master’s in Computer Science, Gründerskolen, and a voyage that’s included the first Varsom app, Lillygram, POW!, work for the Swedish Armed Forces, piraty live streaming on YouTube, talks on small and large stages, and plenty of galskap in between.
Every other week I chat with Benedikt Deicke on the Slow & Steady podcast. My first name is Benedicte, so that’s kinda funny: Benedikt and Benedicte (lol).
Now
- Whee!, fractional CTO (since 2024)
- Slow & Steady, the podcast with Benedikt Deicke, every other week
- Queen Raae on YouTube, piraty live streams and videos (since 2021)
- kompetansemål.no, the Norwegian competency goals in plain language
- POW!, the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal (launched 8 March 2020)
Before
- Outseta, partner and fractional DevRel (2023–2026)
- Data in the Wild, a podcast (2023–2024)
- DNB, contract developer on the new personal online bank (2023)
- Prune your Follows, with Xata (2022–2023)
- Tactical network monitoring for Thales (2017–2021)
- boksok.no, Leser søker bok (2014–2018)
- The Varsom app for NVE (2013–2019)
- Giftinformasjon, second place in apps4norge (2013)
- Appelsin, co-founder (2010–2012)
- Lilly Apps: lillygram, LillySleep and LillyMap
- Iterate, solutions engineer (2009–2010)
Along the way
- MSc in Computer Science from NTNU (2009)
- Gründerskolen in Boston (2007)
- Tech Role Model (2019)
- One of Norway’s 50 leading women in tech (2025)