I'm Olafur Aron Johannsson, a Systems Engineer based in Reykjavik, Iceland. 15 years building production software across aviation systems, real-time graphics, and high-performance web platforms.
Currently at Tern Systems, working on Polaris ATM, a next-generation Air Traffic Control system operational in Iceland and Hungary.
Open source
- Kjarni — Native ML inference engine in Rust. Runs encoder, decoder, and seq2seq models. C#, Go, Python and WASM bindings. CLI tool. No Python runtime, no ONNX.
- Kjarni Obsidian Plugin — Find related notes and search your vault by meaning. Runs locally, no API key.
- Lundi — Asynchronous C++20 HTTP framework built on epoll and coroutines. Header-only, no external dependencies.
- Contributor to Hugging Face Candle
Research
Published at SIGUL 2024 (ACL Anthology) — ML research on low-resource language processing.
Tech
Rust, C++, C#, Python, Go, Qt/QML, OpenGL, WebGPU, WebGL, React, Next.js, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers



