Óskar Þorleifsson
PHD Student at Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolÓskar 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
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at Háskóli ÍslandsMaster of Science - MS, Economics, Master of Science - MS, Economics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (8)
mobile10
ios10
react-native-component10
notification10
react-native10
clojurescript9
blockchain5
ethereum5
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-mobile
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:Óskar 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.
ethereumwalletiosmobilemessenger
status-im/swarms
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Swarm Home. New, completed and in-progress features for Status
Contributions:177 commits, 164 PRs, 245 pushes in 1 year 5 months
in-progressstatusswarm
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