Kristján Oddsson
Software Engineer at Workbrew
San Francisco, California, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolKristján Oddsson is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient, user-focused web applications and infrastructure, currently based in San Francisco and working at Workbrew. He has held senior front-end roles at GitHub and Cloudflare where he led TypeScript migrations, removed legacy dependencies like jQuery, and built open-source Web Components used across developer workflows. At ING he implemented Real User Monitoring at scale, and his contributions to the ffaker library show a knack for pragmatic back-end tooling—improving regex-based string generation and realistic fake data. A Reykjavik University computer science graduate, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with a playful developer persona: “write dirty code, tell clean jokes.”
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Reykjavik University
English, Icelandic
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Github Skills (23)
postgresql10
testing10
ruby10
regular-expression10
javascript9
lib9
json9
git9
github9
rest9
heroku9
merge9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
html6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ffaker/ffaker
Feb 2011 - Dec 2012
Faker refactored.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kristján primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ffaker library. Their commits focused on implementing new features, such as generating single words, and improving existing ones, notably the string generation capabilities for regular expressions. The user also addressed issues related to character escaping and set operations within the regular expression generation. These contributions enhanced the library's ability to generate diverse and realistic fake data.
testingrefactoredfaker
kristjan/adventofcode
Dec 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:79 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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