Einar Örn Ólafsson
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at Opus Futura- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Danish Elementary proficiency
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Louis C.
Einar is a very talented and experienced developer, this especially comes across in the quality of the work he produces and the knowledge he applies to technical discussions. His knowledge in architecture and design is exceptional. I can say from endless hours of pairing sessions that he is a pleasure to work with and is very constructive and pragmatic when it comes to problem solving as a team. He will be a real asset to any team he ends up with next and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him in the future.
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson
I had the pleasure of working with Einar Örn for 12 years as the head of IT at the Central Bank of Iceland where Einar worked as a software engineer, and where he oversaw the design, development and operations of the time series database and related systems for the statistical data of the bank. Einar was energetic, resourceful and focused on his projects and also very helpful to other employees at the bank, a well-liked employee that was fun to be around. A reliable and trustworthy colleague that I can highly recommend
Louis C.
Einar is a very talented and experienced developer, this especially comes across in the quality of the work he produces and the knowledge he applies to technical discussions. His knowledge in architecture and design is exceptional. I can say from endless hours of pairing sessions that he is a pleasure to work with and is very constructive and pragmatic when it comes to problem solving as a team. He will be a real asset to any team he ends up with next and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him in the future.
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson
I had the pleasure of working with Einar Örn for 12 years as the head of IT at the Central Bank of Iceland where Einar worked as a software engineer, and where he oversaw the design, development and operations of the time series database and related systems for the statistical data of the bank. Einar was energetic, resourceful and focused on his projects and also very helpful to other employees at the bank, a well-liked employee that was fun to be around. A reliable and trustworthy colleague that I can highly recommend
Louis C.
Einar is a very talented and experienced developer, this especially comes across in the quality of the work he produces and the knowledge he applies to technical discussions. His knowledge in architecture and design is exceptional. I can say from endless hours of pairing sessions that he is a pleasure to work with and is very constructive and pragmatic when it comes to problem solving as a team. He will be a real asset to any team he ends up with next and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him in the future.
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson
I had the pleasure of working with Einar Örn for 12 years as the head of IT at the Central Bank of Iceland where Einar worked as a software engineer, and where he oversaw the design, development and operations of the time series database and related systems for the statistical data of the bank. Einar was energetic, resourceful and focused on his projects and also very helpful to other employees at the bank, a well-liked employee that was fun to be around. A reliable and trustworthy colleague that I can highly recommend
Louis C.
Einar is a very talented and experienced developer, this especially comes across in the quality of the work he produces and the knowledge he applies to technical discussions. His knowledge in architecture and design is exceptional. I can say from endless hours of pairing sessions that he is a pleasure to work with and is very constructive and pragmatic when it comes to problem solving as a team. He will be a real asset to any team he ends up with next and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him in the future.
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson
I had the pleasure of working with Einar Örn for 12 years as the head of IT at the Central Bank of Iceland where Einar worked as a software engineer, and where he oversaw the design, development and operations of the time series database and related systems for the statistical data of the bank. Einar was energetic, resourceful and focused on his projects and also very helpful to other employees at the bank, a well-liked employee that was fun to be around. A reliable and trustworthy colleague that I can highly recommend
Experience
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Opus Futura
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Iceland
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
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Oct 2023 - Present
Currently developing an advanced and automated platform for individuals and workplaces to match on what matters. Currently developing an advanced and automated platform for individuals and workplaces to match on what matters.
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Teya
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead
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Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
March 2022 - June 2023 Lead the Acquiring Product initiative for Settlements building highly scalable and loosely coupled acquiring host agnostic backend system responsible for merchant settlements and reporting APIs using technologies such as Golang and Kafka. December 2021 Planned and led an infrastructure migration for the Payments System from a legacy based platform over to a highly automated SaltPay Global Infrastructure Platform. Recreating CI/CD pipelines, provisioning… Show more March 2022 - June 2023 Lead the Acquiring Product initiative for Settlements building highly scalable and loosely coupled acquiring host agnostic backend system responsible for merchant settlements and reporting APIs using technologies such as Golang and Kafka. December 2021 Planned and led an infrastructure migration for the Payments System from a legacy based platform over to a highly automated SaltPay Global Infrastructure Platform. Recreating CI/CD pipelines, provisioning dependencies and providing observability using technologies as Kubernetes, Tekton, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo and Loki May 2021 Part of a team of 9 software engineers where we designed and built a Payments System responsible for receiving daily merchant payments instructions and processing them. AWS cloud based microservices based solution integrating on premises acquiring host and external payment providers using technologies such as Golang, S3, SQS, Kafka, DynamoDB, Postgres and Datadog September 2020 Lead a team of 6 software engineers with the responsibility of Business Process Automation (BPA) for Borgun on premises acquiring platform. Using technologies as .NET Core and RPA the team deliverables where the following - Merchant Terminal Invoicing - Integrating accounting and merchant portal - Issuing Fraud Monitoring - Fraud event driven freeze cardholder card and notification - Merchant Payments - Streamlining and governance of unscheduled merchant payments - Merchant Chargebacks Process - Full chargebacks flow integrating card schemes and Zendesk as merchant external communication channel. Show less March 2022 - June 2023 Lead the Acquiring Product initiative for Settlements building highly scalable and loosely coupled acquiring host agnostic backend system responsible for merchant settlements and reporting APIs using technologies such as Golang and Kafka. December 2021 Planned and led an infrastructure migration for the Payments System from a legacy based platform over to a highly automated SaltPay Global Infrastructure Platform. Recreating CI/CD pipelines, provisioning… Show more March 2022 - June 2023 Lead the Acquiring Product initiative for Settlements building highly scalable and loosely coupled acquiring host agnostic backend system responsible for merchant settlements and reporting APIs using technologies such as Golang and Kafka. December 2021 Planned and led an infrastructure migration for the Payments System from a legacy based platform over to a highly automated SaltPay Global Infrastructure Platform. Recreating CI/CD pipelines, provisioning dependencies and providing observability using technologies as Kubernetes, Tekton, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo and Loki May 2021 Part of a team of 9 software engineers where we designed and built a Payments System responsible for receiving daily merchant payments instructions and processing them. AWS cloud based microservices based solution integrating on premises acquiring host and external payment providers using technologies such as Golang, S3, SQS, Kafka, DynamoDB, Postgres and Datadog September 2020 Lead a team of 6 software engineers with the responsibility of Business Process Automation (BPA) for Borgun on premises acquiring platform. Using technologies as .NET Core and RPA the team deliverables where the following - Merchant Terminal Invoicing - Integrating accounting and merchant portal - Issuing Fraud Monitoring - Fraud event driven freeze cardholder card and notification - Merchant Payments - Streamlining and governance of unscheduled merchant payments - Merchant Chargebacks Process - Full chargebacks flow integrating card schemes and Zendesk as merchant external communication channel. Show less
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Borgun
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Dec 2014 - Jun 2020
I designed and developed Borgun loans/instalments platform used by hundreds of merchants and individuals in the tenths of thousands. The platform consisted of the following products: - Loan Application Web for loan application integrating Creditinfo for loan authorization and using Auðkenni for SCA - SOAP/REST APIs for merchant integration for eCommerce loans and Backoffice - Borrower Web for individual transparency and self service I designed and developed Borgun loans/instalments platform used by hundreds of merchants and individuals in the tenths of thousands. The platform consisted of the following products: - Loan Application Web for loan application integrating Creditinfo for loan authorization and using Auðkenni for SCA - SOAP/REST APIs for merchant integration for eCommerce loans and Backoffice - Borrower Web for individual transparency and self service
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Central Bank of Iceland
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Iceland
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Banking
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2002 - Nov 2014
I was in charge of a data system, I designed and developed, that is primary built around the bank‘s statistical publications. In short the system receives time series data from various sources which are integrated to produce statistical data. This includes an API to receive and send data between different DBMS. To allow internal users to explore, perform time series analytics and explore the data in a structured way I created a website (ASP.NET MVC) which includes a XML output that… Show more I was in charge of a data system, I designed and developed, that is primary built around the bank‘s statistical publications. In short the system receives time series data from various sources which are integrated to produce statistical data. This includes an API to receive and send data between different DBMS. To allow internal users to explore, perform time series analytics and explore the data in a structured way I created a website (ASP.NET MVC) which includes a XML output that enables data visualization with tools like Excel Pivot Charts. In 2012 I was the leader of a group that adapted the DataMarket solution that is used for the bank‘s statistical publications. In addition to that work I designed a system that automatically publishes data for relevant publication dates. Show less I was in charge of a data system, I designed and developed, that is primary built around the bank‘s statistical publications. In short the system receives time series data from various sources which are integrated to produce statistical data. This includes an API to receive and send data between different DBMS. To allow internal users to explore, perform time series analytics and explore the data in a structured way I created a website (ASP.NET MVC) which includes a XML output that… Show more I was in charge of a data system, I designed and developed, that is primary built around the bank‘s statistical publications. In short the system receives time series data from various sources which are integrated to produce statistical data. This includes an API to receive and send data between different DBMS. To allow internal users to explore, perform time series analytics and explore the data in a structured way I created a website (ASP.NET MVC) which includes a XML output that enables data visualization with tools like Excel Pivot Charts. In 2012 I was the leader of a group that adapted the DataMarket solution that is used for the bank‘s statistical publications. In addition to that work I designed a system that automatically publishes data for relevant publication dates. Show less
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Education
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2012 - 2020
Háskóli Íslands
Master's degree, Computer Science -
1999 - 2002
Reykjavik University
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science
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