Experience

Jiko

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Platform Development

  • Aug 2020 - Present

• Senior Lead Developer

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2020



WOW air

• Iceland
• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 2017 - Jun 2018



Gagnavarslan ehf.

• Iceland
• Warehousing and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer Consultant

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2015 - Sep 2015

  Line management, resource planning, mentoring and coaching of 20 team members. Design and plan the move away from an on-premise architecture to a SaaS model

• Software Development Team Lead

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2014

  Introduce OpenStack Swift for reliable object storage Create activity feed/notification streams through event queues and SOLR - and render these through a modern javascript framework talking to a RESTful API Transform company scalability by engineering pluggable, customizable features into the Python platform Migrating to, stabilizing and performance optimizing a new Java backend for the platform. Implementing a disciplined SCRUM approach across projects Automate and reduce risk… Show more Introduce OpenStack Swift for reliable object storage Create activity feed/notification streams through event queues and SOLR - and render these through a modern javascript framework talking to a RESTful API Transform company scalability by engineering pluggable, customizable features into the Python platform Migrating to, stabilizing and performance optimizing a new Java backend for the platform. Implementing a disciplined SCRUM approach across projects Automate and reduce risk in the deployment process



Ployst

• Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland

• Co-Founder, Software Developer

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2017

  Greenfield project aimed at solving communication issues CI/CD, GCE, Kubernetes, Aurelia JS, PostgresDB, Python/Django Greenfield project aimed at solving communication issues CI/CD, GCE, Kubernetes, Aurelia JS, PostgresDB, Python/Django



Athlegacy

• Remote

• Technical Advisor

  • Nov 2012 - Jan 2017

  Advisory role on tech implementation decisions and staff hiring review for a US startup Advisory role on tech implementation decisions and staff hiring review for a US startup



Glasses Direct

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Developer

  • Jan 2011 - Jul 2013

  Implement a scalable order fulfillment system using message queues and RESTful services Maintain customer facing website and ordering backend Implement a scalable order fulfillment system using message queues and RESTful services Maintain customer facing website and ordering backend



QuickPOS

• Lead Software Developer

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2010

  Architect, design and build an EPOS application on low cost hardware Architect and implement a distributed, eventually consistent, data layer using Python, twisted, and sqlite. Implement a self-service UI designer Implement a back office reporting system using MySql, Python, turbogears, and dojo. Architect, design and build an EPOS application on low cost hardware Architect and implement a distributed, eventually consistent, data layer using Python, twisted, and sqlite. Implement a self-service UI designer Implement a back office reporting system using MySql, Python, turbogears, and dojo.