Viktor Alex Brynjarsson

My name is Viktor Alex Brynjarsson and I am a programmer.

Work experience

Stokkur Software

May 2025 - current
CTO

Responsible for setting tech strategy to support business objectives for a 12 person org. Including observability, developer experience, and customer relations. Coordinated incident and support request responses. Mentored 7 developers. Remained hands-on in devops and any development that needed extra hands.

https://stokkur.is/

Sotheby's

July 2023 - May 2025
Senior Developer

Hired by Sotheby's from Gangverk as they decided to move more of their development in-house. Along with the responsibilities I had before I focused on increasing observability and stability. I took on some of the engineering management responsibilities for nearly a year while the team was without a direct manager.

https://sothebys.com/

Gangverk

February 2021 - July 2023
Senior Developer

Backend tech lead for the cataloging team working for Sotheby's. Maintaining and creating microservices written in Go and Scala, writing documentation and unblocking team members. The system is built on an event driven architecture with data stored in PostgreSQL and communication between services using GraphQL, gRPC and Kinesis. Services my team is responsible for include simple CRUD services, integrations with other systems including analytics and ERP, and other support services.

https://gangverk.is/

Sýn / Vodafone & 365 Media

July 2013 - February 2021
Senior Developer, telecommunications

Senior developer working in teams of various sizes from 3 to 7. Writing and maintaining applications in .NET Core, Python, Ruby and Java. These applications include integrations between systems, microservices for business rules which need to be accessible from multiple front-ends, and business processes for billing and product fulfilment. I was hired by 365 Media which was acquired by Sýn which owned the Vodafone brand in Iceland.

https://syn.is/

Marel

August 2011 - December 2012
Assembler

Assembled food production lines. Including, but not limited to: ratcheting, screwing, drilling, and hitting things with hammers. Also filled in positions in the warehouse when needed.

http://marel.is/

Árvakur (mbl.is)

Winter 2010-2011
Web developer

At the time the highest ranking website in Iceland. Worked on porting legacy code from Perl to Python as well as creating new pages. All of the new parts were written in Python with Django.

http://www.mbl.is/frettir/

Heilsuvernd

May 2009 - September 2009
Web developer

Developed an in-house customer relation system in C# .NET. Worked in a two man team. Migrated data from an Oracle database to a new MSSQL databse.

http://hv.is/

Eskill & INNN

August 2007 - August 2008
Web developer

Worked on projects for clients creating new and modifying existing websites. Created using an in-house CMS system, did a lot of work with XML and XSLT. However most of the work I did was HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

graduated June 2019
University of Iceland

Clean Architecture Workshop

May 2018
Hosted by Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)

Vocational Degree in Computer Science

graduated 2008
Techincal College Reykjavik

Projects

Owlery

active development 2019 - 2021

The Owlery library provides the ability to consume and publish to RabbitMQ queues with ease. Written for developers in .NET Core to have a similar experience consuming RabbitMQ queues to exposing a web API.

https://owlery.viktoralex.is

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Owlery

Interests

  • Family
  • Food
  • Graphics Programming
  • LEGO
  • Linux
  • Mechanical Keyboards
  • Origami
  • Photography
  • Programming
  • Science fiction
  • Vim
  • Whiskey

Worked with

  • .NET
  • AMQP
  • AWS
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Claude Code
  • Docker
  • Flask
  • GCP
  • Git
  • Go
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Kinesis
  • Kotlin
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • MSSQL
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • Python
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Scala

Tried

  • Flutter
  • Kafka
  • Lua
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PayloadCMS
  • React
  • Redux
  • WordPress

* Note: these lists are in alphabetical order not in order of familiarity.