Benedikt Stefánsson
Senior Digital Product Developer at Freelance
Garðabær, Iceland
Summary
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RockstarBenedikt Stefánsson is a seasoned digital product developer with 12 years of experience building modular, multilingual web platforms and front-end architectures for clients ranging from startups to global brands. Based in Reykjavík, he has led technical transformations—most notably migrating Össur’s fragmented web presence to a headless, component-based design system—and repeatedly shipped product-focused front-end solutions at agencies and in-house teams. He combines hands-on engineering (React, Node.js, Docker, automated testing) with a strong sense for product and design, having bootstrapped digital labs and contributed to conference-level developer communities like JSConf Iceland. Outside of work he channels creativity as a jazz pianist and photographer, and even perfects cinnamon rolls, a detail that hints at his blend of technical precision and artistic curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, Icelandic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
ember10
extensible10
isolation10
nx-workspace10
javascript10
yarn-workspaces10
api10
html10
monorepo10
cli10
angular10
storybook-addon10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benediktvaldez/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 31 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Form5/gengi-is
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:75 commits in 4 months
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