Sigurhjörtur Snorrason
Senior Consultant at Knowit
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSigurhjörtur Snorrason is a senior consultant and software engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across security, biometrics, and media-delivery domains. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, JavaScript, Clojure and C with architecture and system-design experience from roles including Head of Engineering at PONE Biometrics and Lead Developer/Architect at NAGRA. Comfortable both coding and guiding teams, he has shipped backend services, tooling (including Clojure-based API work and Swagger integration) and large-scale product features like Conax GO Live. His background spans startups to established vendors, and he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science from University of Oslo with practical leadership gained running teams and operations. Notably, he moves fluidly between low-level systems work in C and higher-level functional backends in Clojure, giving him a rare full-stack systems perspective.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloNo degree, Psychology, No degree, Psychology at Háskóli ÍslandsHigh School, Economics, High School, Economics at Verzlunarskóli Íslands
Icelandic, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (30)
passwordless8
fido8
asp-net-core8
webauthn7
backend7
mysql-database7
mariadb-connector6
dotnet6
mariadb-database6
mariadb4j5
mysql-server5
e-mail4
rating4
gradle4
rating-system4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DesperateSolutions/GlickoRater
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Glicko 2 backend for Rating frontends
Contributions:77 commits, 4 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 7 months
backend
Molyna/Emacs-settings
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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