Summary
Máni Gudvardarson is a Technical Solutions Architect with 13 years of experience designing and leading software delivery across startups, telco, banking, and civic innovation. Based in Amsterdam, he currently heads concept development and prototyping for the City of Amsterdam’s Innovation Team, building cloud R&D environments that accelerate pilots and bypass traditional procurement cycles. He previously co-founded a networking startup, architected mobile apps and investor pitches, and helped build bunq’s core banking systems and internal developer tooling from the ground up. Comfortable spanning backend systems, cloud infrastructure and frontend prototypes, Máni brings hands-on coding experience in languages and stacks from C#/.NET and Python to PHP, Laravel and Vue. He pairs pragmatic, bottom-up validation with a bias for fast iteration and delivery to end users. An engineer who deliberately seeks daily learning, he blends startup grit with public-sector impact to move emerging tech into production.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Háskólinn í Reykjavík
English, Icelandic, Danish, Spanish, Dutch