Finnur Torfason
Back End Developer at Kivra
Iceland
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Top SchoolFinnur Torfason is a Back End Developer with 13 years of experience blending embedded systems roots and server-side engineering, currently building backend services at Kivra. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from DTU, where his LEGO-collaborative thesis combined wireless communication and gesture recognition—evidence of a knack for physical-digital systems. His career spans firmware for ARM Cortex M4 devices, C-focused telecom software at Motorola Solutions, and co-founding a startup, reflecting comfort across low-level C/Embedded C and higher-level Python and JVM ecosystems. Finnur is detail-oriented and quality-driven, with practical experience in Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, C++ and Erlang that lets him bridge firmware constraints and scalable backend design. Based in Iceland, he brings a research-informed mindset to production engineering and a curiosity for distributed, interactive systems that informed early work on therapy and playware platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
English, Danish, IcelandicGithub contributions (5)
finnurtorfa/i3
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
finnurtorfa/awesome
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 2 months
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