Birna Birgisdóttir
International Consultant
Iceland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBirna Birgisdóttir is an international consultant, creativity researcher, and founder-CEO who leverages nine years of experience to help teams generate and evaluate breakthrough ideas through Bulby, an AI-driven brainstorming facilitator rooted in decades of creativity research. She combines academic rigor—as a long-running PhD candidate in Business Administration focused on creativity and servant leadership—with practical experience delivering workshops, university teaching, and international speaking engagements including TEDx. Comfortable at the intersection of research, product and facilitation, Birna has built Bulby to make idea-sharing anonymous and bias-resistant, and she consults across industries from software to healthcare. Her hands-on technical contributions include meaningful open-source work on the Nheko Matrix client (emoji support spanning backend, provider and UI), reflecting a willingness to dive into both product and code. Based in Iceland, she blends executive coaching and organizational development with a playful, evidence-based curiosity about how brains block creativity—and how AI can unblock it.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, Business Administration, Exchange program, Business Administration at Tecnológico de MonterreyMSc, International Business, MSc, International Business at Griffith UniversityPhD, Business Administration, PhD, Business Administration at Reykjavik University
Github Skills (10)
qml10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
matrix9
desktop9
code-generation8
linux4
macos4
windows4
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Nheko-Reborn/nheko
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Birna primarily contributed to the emoji functionality within the nheko desktop client, which involves both front-end and back-end aspects. They added support for regional indicators, aliases, and shortcodes for emojis. This included changes to the emoji provider, model, and codegen scripts, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's architecture and the integration of emoji data. Additionally, the user made UI-related changes, modifying a QML file.
windowslinuxmatrixdesktopmacos
FunkinModdingPlus/FunkinVortex
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Arrow Editor made for friday night funkin, inspired by Arrow Vortex
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 3 months
friday-night-funkinnightarroweditorfunkin
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