Eiríkur Pétursson
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEiríkur Pétursson is a seasoned software engineer based in Reykjavík with 11 years of experience building backend systems, platform tooling, and DevOps-driven CI/CD pipelines. He has led platform and payments streams, shipping Java/Kotlin microservices and Helm-based Kubernetes deployments while acting as a subject-matter expert in RabbitMQ and CI/CD tooling. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and product-facing roles, he has driven migrations, automation frameworks, and performance optimizations across Riga-sized enterprise teams. His background spans desktop, web, and cloud stacks—Delphi and .NET to modern cloud-native Java—giving him a practical systems-thinking perspective. Colleagues know him as disciplined, industrious, and creative, who also quietly keeps the team caffeinated and the office running. He consistently combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship to strengthen both products and people.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Reykjavik UniversityMatriculation examination, Matriculation examination at Reykjavík Technical College
English, Icelandic
Github Skills (15)
golang10
docker10
ecosystem10
assemble9
container9
go9
moby9
provisioning4
puppet3
ups2
csv1
data-synchronization1
appengine1
mysql1
synchronization1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eirikur-ari/my-dev-stack-template
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
eirikur-ari/openbeat
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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