Sigurhjörtur Snorrason
Senior Consultant at Knowit
Oslo, Norway
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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 (47)
passwordless8
attestation8
fido8
mariadb-database8
net-library8
assertion7
rating7
mariadb-connector7
backend7
rating-system6
mysql-database6
asp-net-core6
jar6
mariadb4j5
actions-on-google5
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
glickofrontendsglicko-2ratingbackend
Molyna/Emacs-settings
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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