Örn Guðjónsson - Software Developer at Marel

Örn Guðjónsson

Software Developer at Marel

Iceland

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Örn Guðjónsson is a seasoned software developer with 13 years of experience building desktop, web and IoT systems, currently contributing to Marel’s Innova food processing platform using C#, .NET, AngularJS and Azure. Raised in Sweden and based in Iceland, he blends strong systems-level experience from roles at CCP (automatic patching and launcher mechanics) with cloud and IoT work, and has practical mobile and web background from Xamarin, Django and Python projects. He’s an active contributor to improving update and self‑update mechanics in open-source tooling—most notably enhancing host shutdown handling and retry logic in the winsparkle Windows updater. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Chalmers and a track record shipping resilient update and deployment features, he pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to lifecycle integration and reliability.

13 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Háskóli Íslands

Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology

Icelandic, English, Swedish

Github Skills (11)

software-update10

c-language10

ws-api10

cprogramming-language10

winapi10

wp-api10

updating9

sparkle9

live-update9

updater9

wxwidgets7

Programming languages (3)

C#C++Python

Github contributions (5)

vslavik/winsparkle

Sep 2013 - Sep 2013

App update framework for Windows, inspired by Sparkle for macOS

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 5 days

Contributions summary:Örn primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Windows app update framework. They implemented new features for handling host application shutdown, including callbacks to control the shutdown process, and added a retry mechanism for the update process. These changes involved modifications to both the UI and core API files of the project, demonstrating expertise in how the application interacts and handles various processes. The user's work focused on integrating the update mechanism with the host application lifecycle.

windowsupdateappcastmacossoftware-update

orng/innout

Jan 2018 - Oct 2022

In-N-Out - simple time tracking

Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months

time-trackingtracking

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