Sigurdur Gisli Sigurdsson
A designer who can code
- Address
- Rauðamýri 1
- Postal Code & City
- 270 Mosfellsbaer
- Region
- Reykjavik
I'm a designer who can code with over 10 years of experience in Fin-Tech and over 14 years combined in Journalism, TV and Media, Health, Science, and more. I've just about done it all, and taken countless products from the idea stage to to a fully working, simple to use, piece of software. I've worked with clients like JPMorgan Chase, Santander Bank, Rob Walling (drip.com), Trello, Peter Diamandis (SpaceX), Syncthing, SimplyCredit and others.
2015-05-01 to Present
Designer and Developer at Freelancer
As a freelance contractor I help companies of all sizes shape and develop their products. I Provide a range of services from Analysis to User Experience Design to a fully developed product.
Designed and developed countless projects ranging from simple apps to complicated workflow engines
Clientele includes JP Morgan Chase, Santander Bank, Rob Walling (drip.com), Fog Creek Software (Trello), Peter Diamandis (SpaceX), Syncthing, SimplyCredit and others.
Case studies and more in my portfolio at https://gilli.is
2021-09-01 to Present
Design and Development Consultant at JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization. They hired me to consult on a property management software for landlords.
Lead design and helped develop a cashflow analysis and prediction software
Lead design on a property management software for landlords
Lead design on a digital banking platform for landlords that handled tenant application and financial management for properties
Lead design on a financial workflow system
2021-05-01 to 2025-01-01
Founder at Baseline
Baseline is a little company I created that is working on tools to make branding and design easier by leveraging brand assets to automate design tasks.
Over 19000 brand guides have been created and are being used by companies all over the world
Visit https://baseline.is for more information
2020-07-01 to 2022-12-01
Design and Development Consultant at Liferaft
Liferaft is a technology-enabled administration platform that lets you build bespoke benefits programs tailored to your client's needs. I was hired to design and develop an insurance application and management systems
Lead design and helped develop on insurance application system
Lead design and helped develop insurance management system
2020-08-01 to 2021-07-01
Design and Development Consultant at Santander Bank
Santander is one of the largest banks in the world. I was hired to design a decision engine.
Lead design and helped develop a decision making to help bankers make quicker, easier and better decisions
2015-05-01 to 2019-10-15
Designer and Developer at SimplyCredit
SimplyCredit enabled consumers to refinance their high-cost card balances with partnering credit unions through a seamless mobile and web experience that takes only minutes to apply.
Designed and built the front-end of six fin-tech products
Worked with extremely complicated and large data
Simplified customer facing products making complicated easy to use
Admin facing products were also simple to use but allowed for detailed administration
Sketch / InVision / UX / UI / InDesign / Illustrator / & more
Phoenix Framework / Golang / Postgres / Hugo / ClojureScript / React / & more
2013-03-01 to 2015-05-01
Designer and Developer at RÚV
RÚV is the 6th most popular website in Iceland. It has the largest media playback service in the country. It serves 5.6million pageviews every month to 643,000 users.
Designed and built the entire front-end of the Ruv.is redesign along with large parts of the Drupal development
Designed Sarpurinn android and ios apps which got a nomination for the best app in Iceland. As well as designing and building the web app.
Designed and built numerous websites for products events and tv-shows like Eurovision, Landinn, Söngvakeppnin, Þingkostningar, Sveitarstjórnarkostningar and over 40 other special projects
2012-06-01 to 2014-06-01
Founder at Curebird
A crowdsourced curefinding tool.
Featured in Visir.is and on Reykjavík síðdegis
Designed, built, marketed entirely by me
Sold in 2014
2011-01-01 to 2013-05-01
Designer and Developer at Freelancer
As a freelance contractor I help small and medium size companies shape and develop their products. I Provide a range of services from Analysis to User Experience Design to a fully developed product.
Designed and developed countless projects ranging from simple apps to complicated workflow engines
Clientele includes JP Morgan Chase, Santander Bank, Rob Walling (drip.com), Fog Creek Software (Trello), Peter Diamandis (SpaceX), Syncthing, SimplyCredit and others.
Case studies and more in my portfolio at https://gilli.is
Web Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Vue.js, Django, Python, React, Python, Phoenix, Golang, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Git, Linux, Gitlab, Github, Quasar, & more
Web Design: UI, UX, Design, Sketch, Figma, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, & more
2009-01-01 to 2011-06-01
Tækniskólinn
Diploma: Graphic Design
- English
- Fluent
- Icelandic
- Native speaker
- Danish
- Beginner
- Turkish
- Beginner
Icelandic Web Awards
2015-06-01
SVEF
Sarpurinn, which I designed for RÚV, got nominated for the best app in Iceland.
Motorcycling: Motorcycling, Triumph, DIY
Hiking: Mountains, Nature
Travelling: Turkey, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain