Summary
Gilli Sigurdsson is a design-driven software engineer and founder from Reykjavík with over a decade of experience crafting UX and front-end systems for fintech, media, health, and insurance. He combines hands-on coding with product design, leading end-to-end projects at JPMorgan Chase and as a freelance consultant for clients like Santander, Trello-era Fog Creek, and SpaceX advisors. Gilli has built high-traffic consumer platforms (including Iceland’s RÚV site and mobile apps) and complex financial workflows that simplify dense data into usable experiences. He also launches tools through his startup Baseline and has a track record of turning experimental projects into viable products, having shipped and even sold his own Curebird platform. Comfortable across modern stacks (React, ClojureScript, Phoenix, Go) he excels at turning ambiguous problems into polished, production-ready interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Icelandic, Turkish, Danish, faroese