Sveinn Lárusson
Senior Software Engineer at MinIO
Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolSveinn Lárusson is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently contributing to MinIO and co-founding Niceland VPN as CTO. He specializes in backend systems and DevOps for high-performance, distributed storage—evidenced by bug fixes and SFTP refactors in the widely used MinIO project, including adding GetObjectAttributes support and improving SFTP robustness. Based in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, he brings practical startup leadership and hands-on engineering, bridging product needs and reliable infrastructure. His background in web development and penchant for subtle reliability improvements make him effective at hardening edge cases that often go unnoticed until they break.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Web Development, Bachelor's degree, Web Development at KEA - Københavns Erhvervsakademi
Github Skills (12)
minio10
object-storage10
go10
sftp10
devops9
cloud-computing9
error-handling9
kubernetes8
go-modules8
kubernetes-pods8
amazon-s38
audit-logging7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
minio/minio
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:85 reviews, 20 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sveinn primarily contributed to the MinIO project by fixing bugs related to SFTP server functionality and enhancing the codebase. They refactored SFTP components to use the new minio/pkg implementation and addressed file consistency issues during SFTP uploads. Additionally, the user added support for the GetObjectAttributes API and implemented error handling for network errors within the SFTP layer, improving the system's robustness. They also made minor improvements to audit logging and fixed code related to console messages during server startup.
cloudstoragemulti-cloud-kubernetesobjectstoragecloud-object-storageamazon-s3
tunnels-is/nicelandvpn-desktop
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:6 releases, 20 PRs, 118 pushes in 7 months
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