Jökull Reynisson
Automation Engineer
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolJökull Reynisson is an automation engineer based in Reykjavík with 15 years of hands-on experience building robust, system-level solutions in C, C++ and Rust. He combines a BSc in Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science with published research on geometric graph representations, bringing a strong theoretical foundation to practical problems like build automation and AV engine maintenance. At Varist he focuses on performance and stability across a legacy audiovisual codebase, and previously engineered real-time malware URL pipelines and locality-sensitive hashing research at Cyren. A seasoned open-source contributor, he has improved core tooling in projects like Pelican and Schematics, often tackling edge cases in parsing, validation, and UTF-8 handling. Equally at home in Linux server administration and creative audio work, he channels a decade-plus hobbyist musician background into audio engineering and interactive installations.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Hamrahlid CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science with Discrete Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science with Discrete Mathematics at Reykjavik UniversityGrady High School
English, Icelandic, English
Github Skills (21)
sentry10
python10
validations10
testing10
data-serialization10
validation10
data-structure10
flask-ask10
serialization10
type-system10
pelican10
data-structures10
crash-reports10
static-site-generation10
flask10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
schematics/schematics
Mar 2013 - Jul 2015
Python Data Structures for Humans™.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jökull contributed to the core data structures and validation logic of the Schematics library, a Python-based library for defining and validating data structures. Their work included merging code from other developers, adding and modifying base types, and implementing a model-level validation feature. The contributions focus primarily on enhancing the type system, including the introduction of new types and methods to streamline the validation process within the framework.
pythondatastructuresvalidationdeserializationpython-data-structures
getsentry/raven-python
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Raven is the legacy Python client for Sentry (getsentry.com) — replaced by sentry-python
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jökull focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `raven-python` library by adding and modifying tests related to Flask integration, specifically addressing interactions with Flask-Login. They also made changes to the `setup.py` file, likely adjusting dependencies and test requirements related to Flask and Flask-Login. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug by ensuring log level overrides were respected within the exception handler. These changes collectively improve the reliability and functionality of the sentry client with flask.
pythonsentryravenpython-clientsentry-python
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