Arnar Thorarinsson
Manager at Avians
Iceland
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Top SchoolArnar Thorarinsson is an experienced IT manager and systems administrator with over 11 years in mission-critical air navigation services at ISAVIA, where redundancy, security, and operational reliability are core. He combines hands-on skills across Linux/AIX, VMware vSphere, SAN storage, MySQL, Nagios, and IBM server hardware with project management experience delivering infrastructure migrations and safety-critical software. Arnar has led major initiatives including designing and migrating a VMware environment and implementing infrastructure monitoring, while also serving as a DBA and hardware/troubleshooting specialist. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he has extended open-source projects like a Wagtail bakery demo with API and admin enhancements, reflecting comfort across application and infrastructure layers. Based in Iceland and holding a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Reykjavik University, he brings a rare blend of deep systems knowledge and practical delivery in high-availability contexts.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer science, B.Sc., Computer science at Reykjavik University
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Github Skills (8)
wagtail10
python10
django10
apidoc9
api9
fest5
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/bakerydemo
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Next generation Wagtail demo, born in Reykjavik
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Arnar contributed to the Wagtail-based bakery demo by implementing features and making code improvements across multiple areas. Their work included adding a choices block for the gallery, integrating model admin functionality, and incorporating an API. They also merged in updates from the master branch and added a blog page, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the project structure and its various components.
djangonext-generationwagtail
overcastsoftware/wagtail_textract
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Text extraction for Wagtail document search
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
extractionpythondjangotext-extractionwagtail
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