Sigurdur Gisli Sigurdsson

A designer who can code

Contact
  • Website
  • https://gilli.is
  • Phone
  • +354 691-5774
Location
  • Address
  • Rauðamýri 1
  • Postal Code & City
  • 270 Mosfellsbaer
  • Region
  • Reykjavik
About Me

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.

Work Experience

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

Professional Skills Summary

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

Education

2009-01-01 to 2011-06-01

Tækniskólinn

Diploma: Graphic Design

Languages
  • English
  • Fluent
  • Icelandic
  • Native speaker
  • Danish
  • Beginner
  • Turkish
  • Beginner
Awards

Icelandic Web Awards

2015-06-01

SVEF

Sarpurinn, which I designed for RÚV, got nominated for the best app in Iceland.

Personal

Motorcycling: Motorcycling, Triumph, DIY

Hiking: Mountains, Nature

Travelling: Turkey, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain