Hugi Hlynsson
Design Engineer at Sana
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolHugi Hlynsson is a design-focused product engineer from Reykjavík with 12 years of experience building elegant user interfaces and product experiences across startups and scale-ups. Currently a Design Engineer at Sana, he previously shaped product and design at Avo, Kolibri, Takumi, and QuizUp, bringing a consistent blend of front-end craft and product thinking. Trained in computer science at Háskóli Íslands, he pairs technical fluency with visual sensibility to ship usable, polished interfaces. Colleagues rely on him to bridge design and engineering, turning ambiguous requirements into tangible, user-centered solutions. Although concise on GitHub, his professional trajectory shows a steady evolution from frontend development to product-design leadership. He’s known for pragmatic decision-making and for bringing Icelandic attention to detail to global products.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Háskóli Íslands
Github Skills (105)
displays10
tencent10
idris10
saas10
lint10
aws10
docusaurus10
javascript9
movie9
ecmascript9
cli9
azure9
command-line-interface9
terraform9
segment9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
avohq/node-avo-inspector
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:12 reviews, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hugihlynsson/veldu-rafbil
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
A project on electronic vehicles in Iceland
Contributions:45 reviews, 644 commits, 988 PRs in 4 years
electronicicelandvehicles
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