Summary
Ólafur Waage is a Principal Online Service Engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable systems, data-driven solutions, and tooling for complex online services. Currently at The Walt Disney Company, he combines deep backend engineering from years in gaming and aviation-related industries with pragmatic service architecture and reliability focus. He has a track record of senior engineering roles at Massive Entertainment, TurtleSec, and Factlines, and brings hands-on experience across systems development, incident-hardened services, and performance optimization. Based in Oslo and active as a content creator on Nordic Nerds, he also translates technical concepts into approachable learning content, reflecting a long history of teaching and mentoring dating back to Reykjavik University. An Icelandic engineer comfortable in large studio and enterprise environments, he’s known informally as “a sane programmer” who values clarity, observability, and shipping maintainable systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Reykjavik University