Gunnar Heimisson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Reykjavik with nine years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale systems across streaming, enterprise networking, and lottery platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript, Java, C++, SQL, AWS, and CI practices, and has architected SaaS OTT pipelines handling ingest-to-playback workflows using FFmpeg, GStreamer, RabbitMQ, Redis and DynamoDB. Gunnar combines backend systems thinking with front-end delivery—years spent building React web clients and mobile integrations give him full-stack fluency. His background includes low-level networking and testing work (DNS/DHCP/IPAM, model-based testing for embedded OS interfaces), which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and observability. Colleagues describe him as innovation-oriented and comfortable translating complex streaming and infrastructure requirements into maintainable production services.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Diploma Audio engineering, Diploma Audio engineering at Studíó Sýrland
AA Degree Computer Science, AA Degree Computer Science at Iðnskólinn í Reykjavík
Splits single file albums for Lidarr using included CUE files - Deletes split files after import
Contributions:8 PRs, 59 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
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