oskarth
Cyberspace
Summary
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RockstarÓskar Þorleifsson is a PhD student in labour economics at Aarhus University with 12 years of professional experience spanning public-sector specialist roles and applied software development. He blends rigorous economic research training (MSc, University of Warwick; BS, Háskóli Íslands) with hands-on technical contributions, notably integrating iOS push notifications into the open-source Status mobile Ethereum client. His background in government ministries gives him practical insight into policy implementation and infrastructure challenges, informing research that connects academic models to real-world institutions. Comfortable moving between native mobile code and economic analysis, he brings a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset to both research projects and engineering tasks. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical or economic problems into implementable solutions and to debug thorny integration issues under production constraints.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
mobile10
ios10
react-native-component10
notification10
react-native10
clojurescript9
blockchain5
ethereum5
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-legacy
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:122 commits, 282 PRs, 371 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:oskarth primarily focused on implementing push notification functionality within the Status mobile application. Their contributions included integrating react-native-fcm, setting up iOS push notification capabilities, and handling FCM token retrieval and refresh events. The user added native module bindings and implemented logic to send and receive push notifications, along with debugging and troubleshooting various related issues. They also addressed bugs and made performance optimizations by implementing pre-receiver functions.
ethereummobilemessengerblockchainwallet
vacp2p/awesome-secure-messaging
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
A curated collection of links for secure messaging.
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
securesecuritysecure-messaginglinksmessaging
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