Olafur Arason
Senior Developer at Vox AI
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorOlafur Arason is a seasoned Senior Developer with over two decades of hands-on programming experience across languages from Turbo Pascal and Delphi to modern Python, JavaScript and Scala. Based in Amsterdam, he brings 13 years of professional experience building backend and frontend systems, particularly in startups and product teams (Planswell, Impraise, BetterUp, Vox AI). He blends strong systems and Linux expertise (LPIC-1 user since 2001) with practical database experience in PostgreSQL and CouchDB/PouchDB, and a history of building bespoke tooling such as an XSLT-driven site generator. Olafur is noted for adaptability—switching paradigms from embedded device parsers to web stacks—and for preferring well-structured, sound technologies over trendy choices. He also has a longtime artistic practice (international graphic award winner) that informs his UI/layout work and marketing materials. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical estimates, cross-stack problem solving, and steady delivery in complex product environments.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
api10
phoenix-framework10
programming-language10
feature-flags10
scalable10
absinthe10
ecto10
patch10
redis10
functional-programming10
apollo-client10
elixir10
middleware9
couchdb9
localization9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
fireblast-ui/fireblast_example
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
A simple example of Fireblast paired with Phoenix
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
phoenix-frameworkphoenixelixir
olafura/beam_to_ex
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
BEAM to Elixir code
Contributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 2 months
elixir-langelixirbeam
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