Haukur Kristinsson is a seasoned CTO and software engineer from Iceland with 16 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver production-grade, scalable systems across software architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. He focuses on maintainability under real-world pressure through clear architecture, solid observability, reliable deployments, and rapid feedback loops, and regularly experiments with modern tools and methods to improve developer efficiency and software quality. Technically fluent across Go, Erlang, Scala/Java, TypeScript, Python, C#, and F#, he blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership at Gangverk and BASTA while serving on the board of an EV charging platform. His background spans infrastructure engineering to director-level product automation and API-first architectures, giving him a rare depth in both low-level operations and high-level system design. He also mentors students and supervises industry-linked B.Sc. projects, reflecting a commitment to cultivating the next generation of engineers.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Software Engineering, M.Sc., Software Engineering at Reykjavik University
Contributions:34 PRs, 56 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 9 months
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