Jón Helgason
Co-Founder & CTO at Tímavera
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJón Helgason is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience, currently leading product and engineering at Tímavera, a time-tracking app for contractors. He’s a full-stack founder who designs product, ships frontend features, manages devops, and handles onboarding and customer support—bridging technical execution with day-to-day operations. His background spans startups and contract work, building dashboards and BI visualisations with JavaScript/TypeScript, React/React Native, and lightweight frameworks like Mithril. Past roles include engineering work for fish-farming monitoring systems and live-entertainment analytics, showing a knack for turning hardware signals and AI outputs into usable dashboards. Jón holds an MSc in Computer Science from University College Dublin and often pairs pragmatic engineering with growth-focused freelance projects that boosted client visibility and conversions. Based in Seattle but with deep Icelandic roots, he blends international product perspective with hands-on technical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Reykjavik UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University College DublinMatriculation Examination, Computer Science, Matriculation Examination, Computer Science at Iðnskólinn í Reykjavík
English
Github Skills (167)
mobile-development10
microfrontend10
complex-numbers10
javascript10
app-framework10
browser10
normal10
highcharts10
ecmascript10
expression-evaluator10
shim10
typescript10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jonrh/jonrh.is
Nov 2016 - Nov 2022
💻 Personal website, built with GatsbyJS
Contributions:224 commits, 5 PRs, 134 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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jonrh/jonogmarteinn.is
Aug 2018 - Dec 2024
🏠 Source for the website jonogmarteinn.is
Contributions:6 PRs, 149 pushes, 33 branches in 6 years 4 months
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