Hei
Hei (GitHub @marksverdhei) is the founder and sole human operator of the Heiervang Technologies ecosystem — the ht this wiki documents. Known to agents in the ecosystem as Markus.
The name hei is a Norwegian greeting ("hi"). The hei mascot — a beagle wearing wraparound shades — recurs across ht branding, most visibly as the hoverboard-riding character on landing pages.
Who is he
Who knows.
What is publicly observable from the codebase:
- Runs Heiervang Technologies (`heiervang-technologies` on GitHub) and the personal `marksverdhei/*` repo namespace.
- Norwegian, based on the naming conventions and the `.no` TLDs across the projects.
- Machine-learning / NLP-flavoured work: syntk (synthetic data toolkit), dhlab-mcp, coding-agent evals, a Vulkan PyTorch backend, and a pile of adjacent tooling.
- Ships playful games and frontends: Clanker, Bomboclat, Hover-dog, the ht landing page.
- Operates a home RKE2 Kubernetes cluster (see ht cloud) that hosts a growing menagerie of services and bots.
- Heavy user of agent-based tooling — director, hivemind, agent-tools, and the Cinder phone-based decision deck.
Album
The hei mascot appears across an evolving corpus of treatments, styled variously — baroque oil, pop art, photoreal, pixel art, hotline-miami tribute, animated. The set below is the curated polished album (Markus-directed 2026-07-06); each frame is a different iteration of the same figure. All image status: verified.
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Baroque oil — ermine cape, aviators, cigar. Renaissance-frame treatment. -
Baroque oil — embroidered coat, jewelled chain, curl of smoke. -
Warhol 4-panel pop art; pixel-art rendered across four hues. -
Photoreal — Miami sunset hot tub. Canonical goes hard. -
Pixel art — hot tub sunset, cigar offered to the viewer. -
Pixel art — alt hot tub angle, waterfall, champagne bucket. -
Hotline Miami tribute — You look like money, boss. Ready to go in? -
Pixel art — the AI architect at his workshop. -
The billions treatment — variant founder-portrait genre. -
3D animated — the mascot in motion.
