Jón Rúnar Helgason Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Remote

Time tracking for contractors. Designed for small companies with simple needs: track projects, hours & locations. Fullstack founder, product development, frontend engineering, devops, onboarding, customer support, and daily operations.https://timavera.com

Remote

Remote contracting on dashboard frontends and various freelance work.• Created litasyn.is and managed Google Ads campaigns for a master painter in Iceland. Doubled prospect flow and increased visibility to high value customers. Ongoing project since 2018.• Frontend engineer contractor at Activity Stream. 13 month contract 2017 - 2018.• Designed and created Biomass Daily Hardware Monitor, an iOS & Android dashboard app for Vaki. Gave fish farmers a mobile overview of measurement devices in sea cages. Made with JavaScript and React Native. 14 month contract 2016 - 2017.

Remote

Business intelligence for Live Entertainment & Sports. Iceland’s Startup of the Year in 2017 and AI/ML Startup of the Year in 2018. Created and maintained dashboards and visualisations for the AI engine. JavaScript, TypeScript & Mithril. Remote contractor.

Iceland

Designed and engineered a new dashboard for monitoring productivity on fish farms. Made with JavaScript and React. Responsible for decision-making throughout the entire stack, from the frontend to the hardware. Mentored coworkers and summer interns.

Iceland

CCP is the maker of the massively popular space game EVE Online. Helped players with in-game issues and reported bugs to the dev teams. Account hacking & credit card fraud prevention. Responsible for monitoring the biggest MMORPG server shard in the world at the time. Wrote Python scripts to automate my work.

Iceland

Maintenance on a Java codebase that managed Vodafone's network inventory provisioning, i.e. communications to various telephone exchange systems over wide variety of protocols. Other various backend projects concerning business flow maintenance, done in WebMethods and Oracle SQL.

Iceland

Python and Django development. Prototyped the first Já.is (a phonebook registry) mobile app. Created the Já.is OSX widget and Windows gadget. Joint summer internship with Skjárinn.

Iceland

Wrote a web service in Python and Django that served TV listings for Skjárinn. This web service was then consumed by various newspapers for daily release. Created internal reports in SQL and Microsoft Reporting Services BI. Joint summer internship with Já.is.

Iceland

Various small internal web programming projects written in Java, JSP and JSF. Made a GUI program that interfaced with a document feed scanner. Improved usability and efficiency of digitising insurance claims for streamlined back-reference. Summer internship 2007 & 2008.

Iceland

Various part time jobs alongside school: bartender, DJ, chef's assistant, etc.

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science

Intensive one year masters with focus on software engineering. Courses: iOS development, machine learning, distributed systems, cloud.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

Courses included programming, testing, math, numerical analysis, theoretical computing, operation research, agile methods, databases.

Matriculation Examination, Computer Science

Graduated with a double degree in Computer Science and General Studies (Icelandic: tæknistúdent). Courses included programming, database.