Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
Freelance Information Scientist
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolBörkur Sigurbjörnsson is an Urban Information Scientist and data engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and over 15 years of experience building information systems for sustainable cities, from Yahoo! Labs research to startups and innovation agencies across Europe. He designs and ships knowledge infrastructure—focused web crawling, ML/NLP curation, RAG/LLM search, and geospatial analytics—that turns heterogeneous urban and climate data into decision‑ready insights for city professionals and green ventures. As founder/consultant he helps small teams move quickly from prototype to validated product, and at PlaceMake and Urbanixm he has translated dozens of data sources into time series, indices and production APIs under tight timelines. His work blends rigorous IR research (XML element retrieval and focused access) with pragmatic engineering, and he deliberately foregrounds transparency and clarity when navigating the uncertainty of innovation projects. Based in Paris, he combines academic depth with hands‑on delivery across domain areas rarely bridged—search, geospatial analysis and climate-focused urban decision support.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Mathematics, B.Sc. Mathematics at Háskóli ÍslandsPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (12)
combine10
kubernetes6
categories6
elasticsearch6
wordpress6
tag-cloud6
database-migration6
python6
weka6
django6
namespaces1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
banqora/terraform-aws-sagemaker-huggingface
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
ConnectedPlacesCatapult/TomboloDigitalConnector
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:123 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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