Sigurdur Lisiecki-skulason
Senior Data Engineer
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSigurdur Lisiecki-skulason is a Senior Data Engineer based in Sweden with a rare blend of decades-long embedded, IoT and edge-computing systems experience and six years focused in data engineering. He has founded and exited an edge-security startup (EdgeSec / EdgeCA) and helped evolve it into Venafi Firefly, demonstrating both deep cryptography/TLS expertise and product-stage engineering. Sigurdur’s work spans low-level C/C++ and high-level cloud-native tooling—snap packaging and DevOps for the EdgeX Foundry project, plus integrations with PostgreSQL and Kong—showing he can bridge embedded constraints and modern deployment pipelines. At Varist he now applies behavioral and heuristic analysis to scale malware file analysis, while his consulting continues to deliver bespoke cybersecurity solutions globally. An Oxford MSc in Software Engineering and a history of building software shipped into hundreds of millions of devices underline his ability to design resilient, secure systems from silicon to cloud.
6 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of Oxford
Swedish, English, Icelandic, German, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
foundry10
automation10
automations10
go10
snapcraft10
postgresql10
edges10
edg10
cicd10
dockers9
kong9
bash9
docker9
yaml8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
edgexfoundry/edgex-go
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo | Owner: Core/Support WG
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 18 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sigurdur primarily contributes to the build and deployment aspects of the EdgeX Foundry project, specifically focusing on the snap package. Their work involves modifying build scripts, updating dependencies, and enhancing the snap's functionality through the addition of hooks and configuration options. The user demonstrates expertise in integrating various services, including PostgreSQL and Kong, within the snap environment, and ensuring proper configuration and database setup. The user also maintains the project's dependencies, ensuring the correct versions of libraries and tools are used.
golangmonorepoedgexowner-coreowner
siggiskulason/edgex-sync
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:523 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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