Egill Sveinbjörnsson
Staff Technical Lead at Qlik
Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolEgill Sveinbjörnsson is a Staff Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building resilient, developer-friendly web platforms and tooling, currently shaping frontend micro-frontend architecture and developer APIs at Qlik. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning TypeScript, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS—with team-level leadership, having led rewrites, migrations and cross-team integrations that materially improved developer experience and deployment velocity. Obsessed with automation and performance, he focuses on CI, testing, release automation, page load times and render optimization to deliver robust, efficient user experiences. Egill favors pragmatic craftsmanship over shortcuts and is known for clear, thorough communication in tickets and pull requests that smooth collaboration across distributed teams. A longtime advocate for moving legacy systems forward, he recently led the migration of an older front-end codebase into a micro-frontend architecture that unlocked new testing and deployment patterns. Outside work he blends a software obsession with a love of music, an unexpected human touch that informs his collaborative approach.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Achivement Personal Awareness and Self-Improvement, Certificate of Achivement Personal Awareness and Self-Improvement at Dale CarnegieStúdent Náttúrufræðibraut, Stúdent Náttúrufræðibraut at Breiðholt Community CollegeBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Icelandic, English
Github Skills (113)
parser10
swc10
typescript-definitions10
material-ui10
babel-jest10
javascript10
react-components10
mobile-application10
webapp10
compiler10
rust10
ecmascript10
typescript10
typescript-compiler10
dts10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
egilsster/canvas
Aug 2016 - Aug 2022
Canvas. Draw something fun!
Contributions:74 commits, 32 PRs, 92 pushes in 6 years
jquerycanvasjavascriptvitetypescript
egilsster/cv-website
May 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:22 PRs, 136 pushes, 27 branches in 9 years 10 months
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