Senior Software Engineer,
Mar, 2021 - Present
Member of a front-end core team that is focused on front-end architecture and streamlining delivery pipelines, workflows and various other pieces all directly related to the front-end strategy at Qlik.
I live for music and I love meeting new people, traveling, learning and experiencing new things and programming. Recently, I have gotten enamoured with the Rust programming language.
Senior Software Engineer,
Mar, 2021 - Present
Member of a front-end core team that is focused on front-end architecture and streamlining delivery pipelines, workflows and various other pieces all directly related to the front-end strategy at Qlik.
Senior Software Developer,
Nov, 2020 - Feb, 20213 months
Worked as a developer and half dev-ops on a greenfield project.
Software Engineer,
Nov, 2017 - Oct, 20202 years 11 months
Was part of various teams during this time. I mainly worked on a resource storage service for our SaaS offering which was a node.js service written in TypeScript and deployed with Kubernetes. Later on I was a member of a team tasked with delivering the first NLP capabilities for our products. Lastly, I moved my focus to the front-end world and joined the analytics client core team where I was working on improving our general front-end guidelines, improving the development experience in that project and other work that required close collaboration between our front-end teams in order to synchronize big changes across our front-end projects.
Member of core team for the main analytical UI for Qlik Sense (Oct 2019 and onwards)
Team tech lead (Governed content)
Primary maintainer for a back end service now written for Node.js in TypeScript and deployed dockerized to our cloud infrastructure
Cross team knowledge sharing to integrate our service to the Qlik ecosystem
Led initiative to rewrite our Java service from scratch in Node.js using TypeScript. Included creating a prototype, pitching to management and making appropriate planning
Junior Software Engineer,
Aug, 2016 - Oct, 20171 year 3 months
As a Software Engineer I am part of a small team that is building a general purpose resource storage service that provides the ability to publish, relate, find, consume, and version resources of any type through a RESTful interface. It will serve as infrastructure across products and platforms (cloud, desktop, enterprise and mobile). My team and I are part of the process from A to Z, which includes designing and implementing the APIs, deploying the service to AWS, monitoring the service, and integrating it into the Qlik product with various teams across the globe.
Primary maintainer for a back end service written in Java and deployed dockerized to AWS
Was responsible for on-boarding and deploying the Java service to our cloud pipeline
Greatly improved development workflow by converting the Qlik DataMarket product to TypeScript
Intern,
Jan, 2016 - Jun, 20165 months
Intern at Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering doing all kinds of software projects.
Played a big part of introducing them to micro-services architecture and was the main software architect for my group
Set up all our projects using TypeScript
Introduced them to build process / dev environment best practices, using SASS for CSS, using webpack to bundle and more
Field Service Technician,
Feb, 2012 - Sep, 20153 years 7 months
Finished the Windows XP to Windows 7 transition for Icelandair in Keflavik (february 2012 - march 2012). Worked as a field service technician and was assisting Icelandair Group (and subsidiaries) employees with technical problems (april 2012 - august 2013, summer 2014 and summer 2015).
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Docker
Kubernetes
CircleCI
Github Actions
Jenkins
MongoDB
Agile
Scrum
Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Reykjavík University
Aug, 2013 - Jun, 2016
Certificate of Achievement, Dale Carnegie Class - Next generation # 16.15., Dale Carnegie
Sep, 2015 - Nov, 2015
Natural Sciences, College, Community College of Breiðholt
Jun, 2007 - Dec, 2011
Developer, Reykjavik University
Dec, 2015 - Dec, 2016
Developed a part of Centris, which is a Learning Management System and Student Management System for Reykjavik University.
My contributions to the projects was writing an API where teachers and student can send requests for certain things like changing a course. I also created the front end for this particular function. The API was written in NodeJS and the front end was done with AngularJS.
Music
Automation
Performance