Sævar Magnússon
Product Manager at Overcast
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolSævar Magnússon is a product-minded software entrepreneur and developer with 13 years of experience building web and AdTech products from Reykjavík. As founder of Overcast and partner at Áskell, he leads development of Airserve and Airdate—production-focused tools for media agencies—combining hands-on engineering with product strategy. A long-time Django user and Wagtail core contributor, he’s fixed nuanced issues around forms, Unicode URL handling, and CMS snippets, showing attention to real-world edge cases. His background spans full-stack web development, project and network engineering, and a MSc in Automation and Robotics, which informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to product design. Notably, he has been shipping web solutions since 1999 and runs consumer-facing projects like Guitarparty, blending entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craft.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsTechnical University of DenmarkCCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate at Cisco
Icelandic, English, Danish
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Github Skills (21)
cms10
url-encoding10
python10
django10
url-scheme10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
forms10
wagtail10
url-parser10
testing8
django-admin6
database6
django-models6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sævar primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Wagtail CMS, specifically related to forms and URLs. They addressed an issue with form submissions by modifying the email sending function to handle multiple values. They also worked on URL handling, optimizing the `URLify` function and addressing issues with Unicode characters. Furthermore, the user addressed problems related to snippets, ensuring functionality with custom primary keys and fixing issues with edit links in previews.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
wagtail/docker-wagtail-develop
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Docker environment for development of Wagtail
Contributions:10 reviews, 32 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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