Jóhann Bergþórsson
Project Lead at Transition Labs
Iceland
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Top SchoolJóhann Bergþórsson is a project lead and serial founder with 17 years of experience building high-scale mobile and game platforms, including leading engineering for QuizUp (80M+ users) and co-founding Teatime Games where a trivia title topped the US App Store. He combines a rigorous mathematics background with hands-on full‑stack engineering, serverless architecture design on Google Cloud, and a pragmatic product analytics mindset to ship data-driven, cost-effective systems. Comfortable shifting between coding, technical strategy, and team building, he has grown and mentored engineering teams from tiny startups to ~30‑person orgs while championing automation, testing, and inclusive hiring. Passionate about applying game design and emergent computer intelligence to real problems, he’s currently focused on ambitious Climate Tech and “API for everything” style automation. An entrepreneur at heart, he looks for big, slightly crazy ideas that can move the needle—even if only a bit.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Mathematics, 93.9, B.Sc, Mathematics, 93.9 at Háskóli ÍslandsNatural Science Department, Natural Science Department at Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð
Icelandic, English
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Github Skills (83)
threejs10
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3d10
javascript10
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virtual-reality10
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android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
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react10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
johannth/asana-inbox
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 months
johannth/antibiotics-guidelines
Nov 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 50 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 2 months
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