About
Hi, I'm Thomas Holtvedt. I'm a Senior Manager at PwC, a technologist, and a builder.
At PwC I work as a business consultant within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. My job is to help organizations optimize complex finance operations and shape them into systems they can actually rely on: clean architectures, auditable processes, and teams that trust the numbers. It's demanding work, and it's where I've sharpened the instincts I bring to everything else I do.
Outside my day job I am a hobby developer, where my favorite subject is game development. I'm the creator and maintainer of OpenGS (Open Grand Strategy), and its sister-project OpenGS - Map Tool, which is an initiative to create a free and open sourced framework and tool-set for creating Grand Strategy Games. In addition, I am a partnered YouTuber under the Good Solution Interactive brand, where I post about coding and game development.
As a tech enthusiast I believe the best way to learn something (whether it is AI, a new language, or a framework) is to build with it, preferably in anger, until it finally clicks. I am also an avid reader and a lifelong learner who keeps a wide set of interests on purpose. This site is where I will publish projects, post updates, and share my thinking on tech, AI, programming, business, and whatever else has my attention that week.
Underneath all of it, I'm a husband and a dog owner. The long hours and focus I put into consulting, code, and content only work because of who I come home to.
Contact
Microsoft Platform and Consulting
My own area of expertise is Dynamics 365 Finance, but the PwC team around me delivers end-to-end on the full Microsoft platform, with specialists across finance, CE, AI, Supply Chain and BI. If your organization has a project or needs assistance in that space, reach out here and I'll route you to the right people. It doesn't have to be Finance or Dynamics.
Personal and everything else
For contact regarding the Open Grand Strategy project, collaborations, contributions, invitations or anything else.
Projects
Active
Projects that I am actively working on or is being actively maintained.
Good Solution Interactive
Partnered YouTube channel. Coding and game dev.
My YouTube brand, where I publish content on coding and game development, including ongoing build logs for the OpenGS framework.
OpenGS
Open-source Grand Strategy framework. Godot.
An open-source framework for building Grand Strategy Games in the Godot engine. I founded the project and maintain it, along with the roadmap and documentation that ties it to the companion Map Tool. The work focuses on the technical and data-handling problems specific to the genre: economy, diplomacy, and province-based logic. Built in GDScript and C#.
OpenGS Map Tool
Companion to OpenGS. World-builder utility.
A Python utility that automates game-world creation for OpenGS. It takes visual cartographic data and converts it into the structured game definitions (JSON/CSV) that OpenGS can consume.
Undisclosed Project
Grand strategy game. Built on the OpenGS stack.
A grand strategy game in early development, built on top of the OpenGS technology stack. The work is being carried out by an international team of enthusiasts. More details will be shared as the project matures.
Archive
Projects that are no longer active, but deserve a mention.
Datafunn
Co-founder. Data company.
A company I co-founded. Public data is for everyone, but at Datafunn we make it easy to actually understand. We were finalists at Alna Gründerhub in December 2024.
Panel, our latest product, gives you industry-leading visualization and analysis, built to deliver insight without complexity. Eiendom, our dashboard for the Norwegian housing market, runs on the same foundation.
Panel
A product by Datafunn. Configurable dashboards.
I built Panel full-stack. The pipeline handles automated data ingestion and normalization, and feeds a dynamic front-end that turns the result into visualizations. The main feature is a user-configurable dashboard: people shape their own views around the specific questions they need to answer.
Whether you work in policy, investment, planning, or you're just curious, Panel lets you see the patterns, trends, and opportunities straight from the source.
Articles
Latest selection
It’s no secret that I’m very fond of the Swift programming language, even this site is built with it! So naturally, it makes sense that I’d want to use it for my other projects as well, especially in the realm of game development and Godot.
Version 0.4 is the biggest release the project has had (at least since its inception). Five months of work between 0.3 and here, both from me and the amazing Open Grand Strategy Community.
When I first set out to build my own website, I had a clear goal in mind: build it the old school way.