Kristján Oddsson

Kristján Oddsson

Software Engineer in Amsterdam, He/him

About

A software engineer with a penchant for working with Web Platform features and open source.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Amsterdam
  • Led efforts on implementing a Real User Monitoring (RUM) system for performance of mijn.ing.nl. Communicated and synchronised between teams and countries to enable performance insights on various assets within ING.
2017 — 2023
Software Engineer at GitHub
London

On the Web System team responsible for the github.com frontend.

Work included providing JavaScript and UI components, debugging complex performance and UI problems and leading work on frontend infrastructure.

2016 — 2017
London

Worked on the design system for cloudflare.com as well as working intimately with feature teams to implement the UI for features.

2015 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Reykjavík, Iceland
2012 — 2015
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2010 — 2011

Speaking

2023
Amsterdam

The advent of the internet and the rise of digital technologies have transformed the way we live, work, and play. As we find ourselves increasingly reliant on web applications, the importance of Web Performance has never been more evident. In this talk, we'll go over some basics of Web Performance, why Web Performance matters, and look at some real production data, how to collect it, and analyse it.

2020
San Francisco

A talk about how GitHub use Web Components to build github.com and help engineers at GitHub write readable, performant, and accessible front end components and patterns as part of the Web Systems team.

Writing

2023

The advent of the internet and the rise of digital technologies have transformed the way we live, work, and play. As we find ourselves increasingly reliant on web applications, the importance of Web Performance has never been more evident. In this post, we'll go over some basics of Web Performance, why Web Performance matters, and look at some real production data, how to collect it, and analyse it.

Education

2009 — 2012

Contact

GitHub
LinkedIn
Twitter