Birgir Stefansson
Engineering Manager at Schibsted
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBirgir Stefansson is an experienced engineering manager based in Oslo with over a decade of experience designing and delivering distributed, scalable Java-based systems and web products. He has progressed from hands-on senior engineer and tech lead roles to staff engineer and now engineering manager at Schibsted, bringing deep expertise in software design, test and development workflow automation, and product-focused UX thinking. Comfortable spanning the full stack, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a strong emphasis on software quality and agile delivery. His background includes leading an eight-person team in investment banking systems and research experience in peer-to-peer distributed storage, reflecting a long-standing interest in resilient distributed architectures. Collected across startups and large media/telecom firms, his career shows a blend of technical leadership and practical product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Háskóli ÍslandsProfessional Photography, Professional Photography at University of the Arts London
English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, German
Github Skills (15)
daemon10
kubernetes-operator10
python9
kubernetes8
aws7
skipper7
python-client7
client-library6
api6
terraform-module6
kubernetes-client5
terraform4
charts1
metadata1
helm1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fiaas/mast
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 reviews, 51 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years 5 months
fiaas/ais
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
AIS manages the publication of release channel metadata for FIAAS components
Contributions:19 PRs, 29 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year
fiaasaismetadata
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