Eðvald Gíslason
Chief Financial Officer at Sýn
Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolEðvald Gíslason is a data-driven finance executive and former data scientist with 11+ years of experience spanning fintech, banking, genomics, and the gaming industry. As CFO of Sýn and previously Head of FP&A at Kvika, he builds finance teams, rolling-forecast frameworks and BI platforms that apply automation and DevOps-inspired Finance Ops to replace manual reporting. His technical roots—MSc in Applied Mathematics and a BSc in Computer Science—are reflected in hands-on work across R, Python, C#, C++, SQL and visualization tools, and in earlier roles developing pricing engines and analytic libraries for fixed income and virtual-economy health. He has led data-driven product and operational decisions from customer lifetime value models at CCP to UK Biobank analyses at WuXi NextCODE, combining statistical rigor with practical business impact. Comfortable presenting to audiences from tens to thousands, he brings a rare mix of quantitative engineering, software development experience and executive financial leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Reykjavik UniversityTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish, Icelandic, German
Github Skills (29)
tidyverse9
tibble9
tidymodels9
tsne9
dplyr8
tidy8
r8
api6
gateway6
authorization5
vscode5
visual-studio5
vscode-extension5
dataframes5
visual-studio-code4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wuxi-nextcode/gorr
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
R library for remote execution of GOR queries and authorization with WuXi NextCode gateway API.
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 24 PRs in 5 months
golangapiapi-gatewayremote-executionauthorization
edvaldig/cyclothon
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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