Ægir Þorsteinsson
Chief Product Officer at Hopp Mobility
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolÆgir Þorsteinsson is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 16 years of experience building digital products and startups from Iceland to international markets. As Co-Founder of Aranja and Hopp Mobility and now Chief Product Officer, he combines hands-on engineering (TypeScript, Node.js, React Native) with product strategy to scale a scooter-sharing platform across 12 countries and deliver projects for Google, Facebook, Nest and Sotheby’s. He leads a venture studio that invests in early-stage teams and provides design and engineering muscle, often tackling climate and social impact through shared mobility and public digital platforms. An active front-end contributor to the Ember Inspector project, Ægir brings practical UX improvements and quality-first engineering to open-source tooling as well as commercial products. He blends operator experience as a former CEO with deep delivery experience from web stores to government platforms, making him equally at home shipping code and shaping product roadmaps.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Reykjavik UniversityComputer Technology Diploma School of Information Technology, Computer Technology Diploma School of Information Technology at Technical College Reykjavik
English, Icelandic, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
ember10
testing9
html8
chrome8
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/ember-inspector
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Adds an Ember tab to the browser's Developer Tools that allows you to inspect Ember objects in your application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ægir contributed to the Ember Inspector, focusing on improving the UI and user experience. Their work included implementing features for the Container and Data tabs, such as sending container details to the console and using ember-table. They also addressed bugs and made improvements to the component tree, including scrolling to the correct item. Additionally, they updated tests and improved code quality.
firefoxember-addonbrowserember-inspectorjavascript
aranja/aranja.com
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 PRs, 89 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 10 months
web-studiojavascriptreact
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