Arnar Leifsson
Senior Manager at Reykjavik University
Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolArnar Leifsson is a senior software leader with 11 years of experience architecting and delivering web and cloud solutions across academia and consulting, currently a Senior Manager at Deloitte in Iceland. He combines hands-on development—especially in web services, microservices, and authentication—with a strong focus on loosely coupled, maintainable architecture and pragmatic integration strategies. As a recurring instructor at Reykjavik University, he bridges theory and practice, teaching advanced web programming and web services while continuing to build production systems such as centralized authentication, CDNs, and integration pipelines. Previously he led architecture and product work at Expectus, owning data management and governance platforms and cloud deployment strategy. Driven to learn continuously, he aims to pick up a new programming language each year and deliberately cultivates environments that challenge and grow his technical craft.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 9.4, BS, Computer Science, 9.4 at Reykjavik UniversityBachelor of Education - BEd, Science and Math, Bachelor of Education - BEd, Science and Math at Háskóli Íslands
English, Icelandic, German, Spanish
Github Skills (86)
web-application10
spring-boot10
mongodb10
hook9
rebus9
wordpress-api9
monorepo9
servicebus9
dbus9
react9
wordpress-rest-api9
graphql9
bus9
nodejs9
backend8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arnarleifs/WebProgrammingIIRU
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches, 6 tags in 3 years 2 months
sfhuser/SFH.IT.Hljodrit
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:368 pushes, 30 branches in 3 months
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