Hogni Gylfason
Senior Technical Director at Scopely
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolHogni Gylfason is a Senior Technical Director with 12 years of professional experience driving scalable online architectures and live service operations across the games industry. Now at Scopely, he leads a team focused on performance and applied AI to elevate player experience, building on prior technical director roles at CCP, Novaquark and Behaviour Interactive. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic vision—having defined MMO deployment architectures, led DevOps/cloud scale initiatives, and shipped both AAA and indie projects through a long-running hobby studio he co-runs. Based in Barcelona, he’s comfortable bridging cross-functional product and engineering teams to deliver measurable improvements in reliability and latency. Known for a practical curiosity (“creating new stuff”), he pairs deep systems expertise with a habit of prototyping novel approaches to complex infrastructure challenges.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Student Psychology, Student Psychology at Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð
English, Icelandic, Swedish
Github Skills (60)
world-of-warcraft9
thin9
forwarding8
boost8
celery8
rabbitmq8
bullet8
messaging8
redis7
controller7
kombu7
resource-management7
message-queue7
sdk7
physics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
klumhru/boost-python-bullet
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
Thin boost based python wrapper for bullet physics sdk
Contributions:194 commits in 11 months
physicspythonpython-wrapperbullet-physicssdk
klumhru/cognity
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 7 days
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