Summary
Eysteinn Gunnlaugsson is a Lead AI Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building ML-driven healthcare and gaming products, currently leading AI at CCP Games out of Reykjavik. He blends deep research experience—from KTH master’s work on sleep-stage classification to integrating multiple neural models in production at Nox Medical—with practical backend and data engineering skills. At Sidekick Health he progressed from ML engineer to Chapter Lead, driving AI strategy, launching personalization and A/B testing infrastructure, and coaching engineering teams. He’s comfortable shipping prototypes to production, owning everything from Airflow pipelines and BigQuery integrations to C# product code and anomaly detection on large biosignal datasets. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who turns academic ideas into usable features while prioritizing team growth and well‑being.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, Icelandic