Tryggvi Gylfason
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolTryggvi Gylfason is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance web and desktop clients, currently working on Spotify’s desktop and web player from Stockholm. He blends front-end craftsmanship (React, Flow, ES6) with back-end and microservice experience (Scala, Finagle) gained at scale on products that served millions of users. Comfortable across full-stack domains, he has shipped customer-facing tooling, resilient scatter-gather APIs for mobile clients, and internal support systems. An Icelandic technologist and musician, he contributes to the open web through CodePen and GitHub and brings a designer-friendly sensibility to engineering problems. Notably, he transitioned from monorepo JavaScript work to typed and service-oriented architectures, demonstrating pragmatic adaptability across languages and architectures.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsKvennaskólinn í Reykjavík
English, Icelandic, Danish, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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javascript
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Github Skills (200)
debounce10
dependency-analysis10
ui-components10
testing10
low-level10
linter10
lazyload10
browser10
localize10
localization10
api10
wai-aria10
viewport10
tooltip10
chai10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Nord-HI/nord.is
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:122 commits, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
icelandsciencecomputer-scienceengineeringcomputer-science-students
tryggvigy/OverlayScrollbars
Aug 2020 - Apr 2024
A javascript scrollbar plugin which hides native scrollbars, provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars and keeps the native functionality and feeling.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
smooth-scrollinghidesscrollbarscrolljavascript
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