Pall Helgason
Distinguished Engineer at Illuminati ehf
Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolPall Helgason is a Distinguished Engineer and entrepreneur based in Iceland with 13+ years of professional experience building web, back-end and cloud solutions. He blends deep systems and database expertise—Java, SQL, C/C++—with hands-on cloud platform work (CloudStack, Qstack) and a history of leading teams and products at NetApp and Greenqloud. As owner and COB of Illuminati ehf and now leading Redstapler ehf, he pairs technical craftsmanship with long-term operational ownership and product accountability. Pall has moved between senior IC roles and engineering leadership, directing ANF/CVS initiatives that required both architecture and delivery oversight. Trained in industrial mathematics at NTNU, he brings analytical rigor to distributed systems and storage challenges. An uncommon strength is his simultaneous fluency in low-level languages and cloud orchestration, enabling him to bridge kernel-level performance concerns with scalable cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (21)
libvirt10
vsphere10
kvm10
core-module9
vmware9
java9
python9
virtual-machine9
iaas9
virtualization9
hosting9
infrastructure9
orchestration8
azure8
core-platform8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bluebottle/is.idega.idegaweb.block.pheidippides
Jun 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:87 pushes in 5 years 8 months
greenqloud/cloudstack
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Mirror of Apache Cloudstack
Contributions:40 PRs, 61 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 5 months
apache-cloudstackapachecloudcloudstackjava
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