Summary
Páll Hilmarsson is a data-focused engineer with 14 years of experience building and managing information services for public and private sectors from Reykjavik. He currently serves as Sérfræðingur Gagnaþjónusta at the City of Reykjavík, where he applies pragmatic data management practices to municipal systems while also running Gögn, a maker-of-the-internet project. His background spans senior development roles at Qlik and data integration work at DataMarket, combining hands-on engineering with product-minded data integration. Trained originally in anthropology, he brings a human-centered perspective to data problems and an instinct for making complex datasets useful and accessible. Comfortable across the stack, he blends practical tooling, integration, and system design to deliver reliable data services. Outside formal roles he describes himself succinctly as a “data hacker” and internet maker, signaling a tinkerer’s curiosity paired with institutional delivery experience.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Anthropology, BA, Anthropology at Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
Menntaskólinn á Egilsstöðum
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English