Friðrik Ásmundsson
Senior Software Engineer at Berachain
Mosfellsbær, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolFriðrik Ásmundsson is a senior software engineer and founder with 16 years of experience turning research into production-grade systems, most notably co-founding Videntifier and scaling its visual search technology to demanding customers like Interpol and NCMEC. He has led large-scale integrations at Facebook, optimizing video identification to run across tens of thousands of machines, and later contributed to decentralized infrastructure as a senior engineer on the Filecoin Virtual Machine and the Lotus reference implementation. Comfortable across systems and backend engineering, he has optimized databases, indexing, and execution tracing for high-performance distributed applications. Recently focused on blockchain tooling at Protocol Labs and now at Berachain, he blends deep algorithmic knowledge with hands-on production delivery. Based in Mosfellsbær, Iceland, he pairs engineering leadership with a practical entrepreneurial mindset and a demonstrated knack for shipping robust, scalable systems from lab prototypes to global deployments.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Reykjavik UniversitySveinspróf Electronic Engineering, Sveinspróf Electronic Engineering at Technical College Reykjavik
Github Skills (8)
go10
sqlite10
sqlite-database10
blockchain10
database-optimization9
performance-optimization9
filecoin9
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/lotus
Feb 2023 - Feb 2024
Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 54 PRs, 176 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Friðrik primarily contributed to the `lotus` repository by implementing features related to the Filecoin protocol's message index, improving performance, and addressing lint errors. Their work involved populating the index on snapshot import, optimizing database interactions, and deleting existing indexes when loading from snapshots. The user also added a small cache to execution traces to improve performance.
golangipfsfilecoinblockchainfilecoin-protocol
frikkasoft/video_metadata
Mar 2010 - Jan 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 10 months
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