Baldur Gudbjornsson
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBaldur Gudbjornsson is a results-driven software engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading teams across large enterprises and fast-growing startups, currently managing engineering at Amazon from Reading, England. He has progressed from web and systems engineering roles to senior leadership positions—including Director of Engineering at Aaptiv and Senior Staff Engineer at Samsung—bringing deep operational and infrastructure expertise. Baldur is skilled at scaling teams and systems through periods of rapid growth and transition, with a track record of shipping reliable production services. His background in literature hints at strong communication and storytelling skills that he applies to cross-functional collaboration and technical mentorship. Notably, he blends hands-on engineering experience with strategic leadership, comfortable moving between code-level problem solving and organizational design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Literature, BA, Literature at Háskóli Íslands
Github Skills (108)
nav10
mapzen10
location10
location-services10
location-based10
react-leaflet9
android-client9
google-play-services9
bounding9
nyc9
gtfs9
android-development9
kotlin9
geo9
google-play9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
polygon-city/chef-buildingdb
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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