Hi folks! I’m Jói Sigurdsson, native to Iceland but have also lived in Scotland, California and Québec. I run CrankWheel, a screen sharing solution for telesales teams, where all of our back-end is written in Erlang and Elixir (we started with Erlang in 2016 and Elixir soon after). I’ve been in the software industry since 1996 and have worked at various tech startups and also for close to 10 years at Google.

To me, Erlang/OTP and also Elixir are the most elegant and ergonomic ways to write communications software and many other categories of Internet infrastructure, removing so much of the burden and duplication inherent in the ways a lot of software is written these days.

I live in Garðabær, Iceland with my wife Erla and our 8-person household, and I enjoy powerlifting, skiing and singing.