Gunnar Gylfason
Founder at Cleared
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Gylfason is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Web3, gaming, and fintech. He has led architecture and product from 0→1—designing on-chain primitives, account-abstraction flows, and agent-first billing for his current startup Cleared while simultaneously co-founding Accord to bring LLM-driven decision workflows to product and engineering teams. Previously he drove platform reliability and blockchain migrations as Technical Lead at CCP Games and delivered high-throughput event-sourced trading systems at Ripple, combining deep distributed-systems expertise with practical CI/CD and observability practices. Gunnar is pragmatic about developer UX and onboarding, making complex crypto and automation infrastructure accessible to non-crypto users, and contributes to the ReScript React Native ecosystem to smooth cross-platform front-end bindings. He holds degrees in financial economics, mathematics, and computer science, giving him a rare blend of quantitative, product and engineering judgment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation examination, Business/Commerce, General, Matriculation examination, Business/Commerce, General at The Commercial College of IcelandMaster of Science - MS, Financial Economics, Master of Science - MS, Financial Economics at Háskóli ÍslandsBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Icelandic, English
Github Skills (4)
react-native10
rescript10
front-end-development10
react10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rescript-react-native/rescript-react-native
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
ReScript bindings for React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 14 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gunnar primarily contributed to the implementation and modification of React Native components within the ReScript ecosystem. Their work focused on addressing interface mismatches, merging updates from the upstream repository, and adding new components, such as `ImageBackground` and `SegmentedControllOS`. The contributions also include updates to examples within the RNTester application to reflect the new bindings and styling.
reactreact-nativereason-reactrescript-reactrescript-react-native
tinkrtailor/mud
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
MUD is an engine for Autonomous Worlds
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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