Garðar Þorsteinsson
Platform Engineer
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolGarðar Þorsteinsson is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and operating resilient Linux and virtualization platforms for banks and public sector organisations in Iceland. Red Hat certified across engineering and development, he specializes in automation (Ansible/Puppet/Terraform), OpenShift administration, monitoring and storage/backup ecosystems (TSM, Veeam) and has deep hands-on experience with VMware, Hyper‑V and SANs. His career includes long-term systems and automation roles at The City of Reykjavik, multi‑year consulting engagements, and a current platform engineering role at Arion Banki, demonstrating a steady progression from infrastructure technician to cloud-native platform operator. Comfortable bridging software development and operations, he also administers national X-Road integrations and large Elasticsearch deployments—skills that signal both regulatory and high-availability expertise.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsStudent, Physics, Student, Physics at Fjölbrautaskólinn í GarðabæElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aalborg Universitet
English, Danish
Github Skills (92)
nagios10
sensu10
nrpe10
monitoring9
django9
hci9
sccm9
intune9
maintenance9
amazon9
python-modules9
powershell8
rapid8
vagrant8
python8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opinkerfi/winexe-waf
May 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 11 months
waf
opinkerfi/docker-adagios-git
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
Docker image for Adagios built from git (Naemon-Adagios)
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 11 months
naemondocker-imagedockeradagios
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