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Languages
Native Speaker
Bilingual Proficiency
Location
Nijmegen
Netherlands
Bio
I am a proactive and self-motivated engineer that has a proven track record of leading complex projects within different regulatory environments and delivering results. Professional interests are in building exceptional mobile experiences, server side system automation, and shipping reliable applications.
By bringing in over 15 years of industry experience building mobile applications in various sectors, it is my belief that I can be a valuable addition to any team.
Work Experience
Prescriby May 2023 - Current
Lead Mobile Application Developer
Prescriby is tackling the prescription drug addiction epidemic by facilitating personalized remote health care via a mobile application based tapering program.
- Oversee development and release management of the cross platform mobile application across regions in Europe and North America.
- Brought the application from proof-of-concept to production ready national rollout within my first 5 months on the team.
- Built the CI/CD pipeline used to build and deploy the application across multiple regions, each with distinct regulatory and compliance requirements
Flutter, Dart, BloC, Android, iOS, Firebase, AWS, Github Actions
Janitor Nov. 2023 - May. 2023
Founder
Janitor is a newly founded startup working on software solutions for the real estate market in Iceland.
Django, PostgreSQL, TailwindCSS, Alpine.js
Íslandsbanki Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2022
Senior Android Developer
Íslandsbanki is one of the largest financial institutions in Iceland, with roots tracing back to 1875.
- Led Android development for a new premium card management application, including the first CDCVM-capable mobile payment functionality on Android in Iceland.
- Led the migration of retail customer functionality from a legacy Xamarin platform to a new native application built exclusively in Kotlin, using modern architecture practices and tooling.
- Implemented multi-tenant functionality for the bank's primary banking application, enabling small and medium business users to manage their finances more easily thus resolving a top complaint among the bank's core customer base.
- Was responsible for building and maintaining Azure CI/CD pipelines for the bank's Android product offerings.
Kotlin, Java, Android, Compose, Gradle, Dagger2, Coroutines, Room, Firebase, Dexguard, Flutter, Bloc, OAuth, Sqlite, Azure
deCode Genetics Jan. 2017 - Nov. 2017
Software Developer
deCODE is a world leading bio pharmaceutical company founded in 1996 and is based in Iceland.
- Developed and managed internal research software systems, integrated external research equipment and third-party software, and delivered technical user support for those systems.
- Led development of integrations for third-party tooling interfacing with sleep measurement hardware, in close cooperation with Nox Medical, used for one of the largest concurrent sleep quality studies in the world.
- Reverse-engineered a proprietary serial communication protocol for expensive out of service medical imaging device, integrating direct communication with it into deCODE's research management systems, saving the company large amounts in replacement costs.
Java, JavaFx, Python 3, Javascript, SQL, Oracle, R, HTML, CSS
Memento Payments Jul. 2015 - Jan. 2017
Lead Android Developer
Memento Payments are the creators of a turn-key white-label financial suite for person-to-person transactions.
- I lead the designing and developing the Android application in close cooperation with the iOS and backend teams, as well as setting up CI/CD workflows and release management.
- Within the first months of release, the application became the most downloaded app on the Play Store in Iceland, surpassing Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook.
- In January 2016, exclusive rights to the system were acquired by Íslandsbanki, which launched it under the product name "Kass”, which later that year won the Icelandic software industry award "Mobile Application of the Year".
Android, Java 8, Sqlite, Gradle, Content Providers, Github Actions
Advania May 2012 - Jul. 2015
Mobile application developer
Advania is a Nordic information technology service corporation, the largest in its field in Iceland and one of the largest in the Nordic countries.
- Participated in building up the first mobile development departments in the country.
- Contributed to the creation of over 10 fully-fledged products, from early design through to release, primarily for Android with several for iOS, serving enterprises of all sizes across various industries.
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines for the department's Android products.
Sigurður Másson - Department Manager
Android, Java, Objective-C, Xamarin, C#, Sqlite, Firebase, Realm, OAuth, Jenkins
Reykjavík Energy May 2009 - Aug. 2010
Business Intelligence Developer
I took part in the initial design work for setting up a data warehouse at Iceland's largest utilities company. My role involved mapping and documenting existing databases, designing and constructing the ETL workflows and constructing the warehouse schemas.
Kristinn Þór Sigurjónsson - Project Lead
SSIS, SQL, ETL
Reykjavík Energy May 2008 - May 2009
IT Support Staff
IT service desk and support for Iceland's largest utilities company.
Skills
Mobile Application Development Expert
Kotlin, Java, Flutter, Dart, Compose, Jetpack libraries, Coroutines
Gradle, Dagger2 / Anvil / Hilt, Koin
Kotest, Espresso, Maestro, JUnit
Firebase, Fastlane, Google Play Developer APIs, XCode
System Administration Advanced
Debian Linux, Bash, Python, Docker, Ansible
Backend Development Intermediate
Kotlin, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Django
Education
University of Iceland 2007 - 2012
B.Sc. Computer Science
Graduation project: "Asymmetric encryption and stenography of multimedia messages on Android"
Commercial College of Iceland 2003 - 2007
Matriculation Examination, Mathematics
Organizations
Defend Iceland bug bounty program 2024 - Current
Participate in an ethical bug bounty program started in Iceland and now extended into the Nordics, where I have found and been rewarded for finding security vulnerabilities in mobile applications made by some of the largest institutions on the platform.
Computer Scientist Association of Iceland 2020 - 2022
Member of the board
Computer Scientist Association of Iceland 2017 - 2020
Chairman of the board
Hakkavélin 2010 - 2013
Founding Member of Iceland's first hackerspace
Volunteering
The Icelandic Search & Rescue2005 - 2011
Was an operation qualified member in the ICE-SAR, participating in search and rescue operations and numerous large training exercises, some with the Icelandic Coast Guard.