Ægir Þorsteinsson

Ægir Þorsteinsson

Web Developer in Web Department at Landsbankinn

Location
Iceland
Industry
Computer Software

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Ægir Þorsteinsson's Overview

Current
Past
  • Web Developer at Golfheimar.is
  • Web Developer in Online Banks at Landsbankinn (NBI hf)
  • Web Developer at VIP Iceland
  • My final project at Reykjavik University at Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents
  • Web Developer at D3 Miðlar
  • Web Developer at Eyjan.is
  • Web Developer at Betri lausnir
  • My final project at Technical College Reykjavik
  • Web developer for a CMS at Annað veldi

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Education
  • Reykjavik University
  • Technical College Reykjavik
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Ægir Þorsteinsson's Summary

Web developer with focus on using web technology to create a better user experience.

Ægir Þorsteinsson's Experience

Web Developer

Landsbankinn

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; LAIS; Banking industry

December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)

I am working on the main website (landsbanki.is) and the intranet for the bank.

Web Developer

Golfheimar.is

2009 – 2010 (1 year)

Helped my friend to start his golf website. It's a social web for golf scorecards and statistics. It is programmed in ASP.NET MVC using Entity Framework to get data from a MS SQL database. I later started working a mobile client for popular mobile phones. I used jQuery mobile for UI and javascript to communicate with webservices. I used phonegap to build for different phones and still have access to the hardware (camera, gps ...) with javascript.

Web Developer in Online Banks

Landsbankinn (NBI hf)

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; LAIS; Banking industry

August 2008 – December 2010 (2 years 5 months)

The online bank is built using WCSF web framework from Microsoft Patterns and Practices. It uses ASP.NET, C# and the MVP pattern. I focused on the client side (javascript) and making improvements to the web framework. Two of the projects I worked on was home finance overview that used canvas for drawing interactive pie and ajax for all server communication and other project was the front page that includes widgets for different modules of the system that can be dragged and dropped around the screen.

Web Developer

VIP Iceland

2009 – 2009 (less than a year)

I created this website for a family member. It uses Django (Python) and is hosted on the Google AppEngine. Most of the work is in javascript (custom jQuery plugins). I was a winner in the 14 days of jQuery competition with this website.

My final project at Reykjavik University

Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

2008 – 2008 (less than a year)

BML Realizer is an open source animation toolkit for visualizing virtual humans in rich 3D environments. As an input to the animation engine we use Behavior Markup Language (BML), a standard language for describing the coordination of body movement in animated characters. This standard is developed by a group of research labs across the world, including CADIA and University of Southern California's Information Science Institute (USC/ISI). BML Realizer uses ISI´s SmartBody as the core of the toolkit, but with necessary modifications to make it completely independent, open and very easy to use. Specifically, we adopted a new rendering engine, called Panda3D, and redesigned SmartBody's communication layer to make it usable in a simple single-application environment.

http://cadia.ru.is/projects/bmlr/

Web Developer

D3 Miðlar

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

2007 – 2008 (1 year)

I created a new BlogCentral.is (multi user blog system) in ASP.NET and C#. It was a rewrite from scratch and all data was imported to from the live database. I also created Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets for TV watcher, RSS reader, radio station and a newspaper. I also helped maintain tonlist.is (icelandicmusic.com) which is the largest music provider in Iceland.

Web Developer

Eyjan.is

2007 – 2007 (less than a year)

I took part in creating the first version of eyjan.is, a popular news provider in Iceland. It uses Wordpress blog system and is heavily customized. Most of my work was in PHP, javascript, HTML and CSS. Later I helped implementing user based comment system with rating and live comment stream on front page.

Web Developer

Betri lausnir

2004 – 2006 (2 years)

I was working on new features for the Learning Management System used at my University and many other schools in Iceland. I also worked on a popular Content Management System. Both systems are written in ASP and use Microsoft SQL as a database.

My final project

Technical College Reykjavik

2005 – 2005 (less than a year)

Stríðsheimar (Worlds of war) was a multiplayer web based game that I created with my friend Ari. The game itself was written in Flash and was turn based. I worked most on the backend for the game that was written in PHP and contained user, news, chat, file and game system.

Web developer for a CMS

Annað veldi

2002 – 2003 (1 year)

After my first year in high school I started working as a web developer. I created websites using curio web (in-house CMS) and also took part in creating new features for the CMS. All work was in ASP and using Microsoft SQL as a database. At that time I used tables for layout and was focused only on the IE browser.

Ægir Þorsteinsson's Education

Reykjavik University

BSc, Computer Science

2005 – 2008

I was the president of the student organisation (Tvíund) for two semesters.
I was the organizer of a computer game tournament called Hringurinn (about 200 contestants)
I was a teacher's assistant for six semesters (two semesters after I graduated).

Activities and Societies: Tvíund

Technical College Reykjavik

School of Information Technology

2001 – 2005

Ægir Þorsteinsson's Additional Information

Websites:
Interests:

front end web development, user interface, touch screens, web standards, progressive enhancement

Groups and Associations:

Board member in Icelandic Web Industry Assocation

Honors and Awards:

Second place in high school programming competition held in Reykjavik University (2004, Reykjavik)
First place in Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget competition held by Microsoft in Iceland (2006, Reykjavik)
Jury and Public awards at Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (IVA 2008, Tokyo)
Winner in 14 days of jQuery competition (2010, mediatemple.net/jquery14/)
Second place at Startup Weekend in Iceland (2010, iceland.startupweekend.org, Reykjavik)
Two Icelandic Web Awards for Landsbankinn.is (2012)

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