Summary
Sturla Bragason is a Principal Platform & AI Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure, GitOps pipelines, and AI-driven products across Europe and the US. He combines a builder’s mentality—authoring Terraform, CI/CD, and deployment tooling—with principal-architect responsibilities in strategy, backlog management, and cross-functional delivery. His work spans identity and access management, Azure ecosystems, real-time audio transcription, and RAG-based support bots, reflecting a rare mix of infrastructure, security, and applied ML. Sturla’s background in mechatronics and early production-optimization roles gives him a practical systems-thinking edge: he architects for operability because he’s fixed the outages. Known for saying “Information wants to be free,” he brings curious, pragmatic advocacy for open workflows and reproducible systems. Based in Oregon (originally Denmark/Icelandic roots), he excels at untangling messy problems and shipping the simplest path to value.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stúdentspróf Háskólabrú, Stúdentspróf Háskólabrú at Keilir Atlantic Center for Excellence
Mechatronics Bsc. Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics Bsc. Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Keilir Institution of Technology
English, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic