Einar Einarsson
Senior Software Engineer at 1939 Games
Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolEinar Einarsson is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience building robust server software on Unix-family platforms, specializing in C and Python with substantial Perl expertise. He has held senior and leadership roles across the gaming and systems software industries, including Technical Director at Directive Games and long tenures at CCP and 1939 Games, delivering production-grade backend systems for complex, real-time environments. Einar’s background spans low-level work—from assembly and C++—to distributed cluster design and mail-server-focused antivirus development, reflecting deep systems and networking knowledge. Comfortable operating between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he’s repeatedly shipped scalable, reliable services under tight performance constraints. Based in Iceland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of founding and leading small technical teams (CTO at Jivaro), bringing both operational and architectural perspective. Less obvious: his career shows a steady focus on Unix internals and server-side performance tuning, a niche skill set that underpins much of his systems-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
EgilsstaðaskóliDropout, Computer Science, Dropout, Computer Science at Háskóli Íslands
Icelandic, English
Github Skills (13)
drift8
soa8
versioning6
scalability5
dotnet5
micro-framework5
stress-testing4
cloud-infrastructure3
git3
git-log3
react3
probot2
github1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
directivegames/drift-base
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Base Services for Drift micro-framework.
Contributions:5 releases, 72 reviews, 209 commits in 2 years 3 months
micro-frameworksoaframeworkdriftscalability
directivegames/DriftUE4Base
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
Base module for Drift UE4 Integration
Contributions:20 reviews, 25 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 years
driftunreal-engineue4ue4-modules
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