Gudmundur Olafsson
Software Engineer at Vercel
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolGudmundur Olafsson is a software engineer with 17 years of experience building developer-focused platforms and cloud services, currently contributing to Vercel from Copenhagen. His career includes senior and principal engineering roles at GitHub and Heroku, where he worked on large-scale developer tooling and platform reliability. He combines deep engineering craftsmanship with a pragmatic focus on shipping resilient distributed systems and improving developer experience. Gudmundur holds an MS in Software Engineering from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, anchoring his practical work in formal software engineering principles. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who bridges product needs and infrastructure realities. He brings a rare mix of platform-scale experience and hands-on coding discipline to complex backend and deployment problems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Icelandic, English, Danish
Github Skills (200)
expressjs10
heroku-cli10
dry-rb10
nosql-database10
heroku10
rack10
serverless10
firecracker10
haml10
hanami10
uid10
api10
sdk10
wrapping10
virtualization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
interagent/pliny
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
An opinionated toolkit for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.
Contributions:18 releases, 184 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years 10 months
apiexcellentrubymetaprogrammingdry-rb
heroku/kinesis
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
A Node.js stream implementation of Amazon's Kinesis
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kinesisstream-jsnode-jsjavascriptamazon
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