Jóhann Gunnarsson
Chief AI Officer at ISP ehf
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
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Top SchoolJóhann Gunnarsson is a Chief AI Officer and seasoned software leader with over 13 years building resilient, high-availability systems across gaming, genomics, banking, fintech, and cloud trading infrastructure. He has led architecture and integration efforts at Ripple and held senior technical roles at WuXi NextCODE, Meniga, and CCP Games, combining deep systems engineering with product-minded ownership. Currently he runs and advises multiple ventures, including AI Green Bytes and LumiLoop, focusing on architecture, infrastructure, and long-term equity where technical leverage compounds. Jóhann is selective about engagements that align incentives for durable impact and writes about AI engineering, power, and sovereignty. His background spans low-latency C++/Python systems to CI/CD and cloud orchestration, reflecting a rare comfort across code, ops, and strategy. Based in Reykjavik, he brings pragmatic leadership and a track record of keeping critical systems running under pressure.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Software Engineering, M.S, Software Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsM.S, Software Engineering, M.S, Software Engineering at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
Icelandic, English
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Github Skills (34)
vote8
django-framework7
ancestry7
java7
democracy7
voting7
microservices6
pac6
grpc6
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compiler-construction6
wxpython6
windows6
protocol-handler6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kjwise/5thEditionCharacterSheet
Nov 2014 - May 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 119 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 7 months
kjwise/podpublic
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:225 pushes in 1 year
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