Robert Bjarnason
President CTO at Citizens Foundation
Iceland
Summary
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SeniorRobert Bjarnason is a veteran technology entrepreneur and CTO with over three decades of hands-on experience building pioneering internet, gaming, fintech, and civic-AI systems from Iceland to London and the U.S. He co-founded the Citizens Foundation to blend collective intelligence and AI for digital democracy used in 50 countries, and more recently co-founded Evoly to commercialize AI collaboration platforms that sustain the nonprofit’s mission. Early wins include creating one of the first mobile versions of The Sims, multiple BAFTA-winning projects, and developing Agent Ruby—an art-world AI chatbot now in SFMOMA’s permanent collection. A pragmatic polyglot engineer and product leader, he has repeatedly turned experimental AI and multimedia ideas into resilient, revenue-generating products (including pioneering AI trading tech that funded the nonprofit). Not obvious from his title: he shipped production AI code as far back as the late 1980s and has operational artifacts from that era still in active use.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CitizensFoundation/your-priorities
Jul 2013 - May 2016
This version is depricated. Please use the new version at
Contributions:486 commits, 81 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
depricated
CitizensFoundation/oav-keys-and-counting
Oct 2016 - Apr 2024
Open Active Voting Keys and Counting App handles public & private key generation for the Open Active Voting app. It is installed on a computer that is then never connected to the Internet after installation.
Contributions:184 pushes, 29 branches in 7 years 7 months
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