Sævar Magnússon
Product Manager at Áskell
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolSævar Magnússon is a founder and software developer in Reykjavik who builds AdTech products for media agencies as partner at Overcast Software, shipping platforms like Airserve for ad serving/tracking and Airdate for media planning. A web developer since 1999 with 12 years of professional experience, he blends hands-on backend engineering (longtime Django user and Wagtail core contributor) with product leadership roles including Product Manager at Áskell and Web & SEO Project Manager at WOW air. His open-source work on the popular Wagtail CMS focuses on pragmatic fixes to forms, URLs and snippets that improve real-world publishing workflows. Trained in automation and robotics (MSc, DTU) and CCNA-certified, he applies systems-level and networking discipline to scalable web and ad-serving systems, and has a track record of launching consumer projects like Guitarparty through Startup Reykjavik.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsTechnical University of DenmarkCCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate at Cisco
Icelandic, English, Danish
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Github Skills (23)
cms10
url-encoding10
python10
django10
url-scheme10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
forms10
wagtail10
url-parse10
url-parser10
django210
testing8
pythonpath6
django-admin6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sævar primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Wagtail CMS, specifically related to forms and URLs. They addressed an issue with form submissions by modifying the email sending function to handle multiple values. They also worked on URL handling, optimizing the `URLify` function and addressing issues with Unicode characters. Furthermore, the user addressed problems related to snippets, ensuring functionality with custom primary keys and fixing issues with edit links in previews.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
wagtail/docker-wagtail-develop
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Docker environment for development of Wagtail
Contributions:10 reviews, 32 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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