Portfolio

Over the years I’ve specialised in designing and constructing frontend applications, that is websites and mobile apps for iPhone and Android. More specifically the type of apps that I’ve specialised in are bespoke dashboards that add insights and convenience for the customers & employees of a company.

Tímavera
Websites & Email for Contractors
Activity Stream
Vaki: mobile dashboard app
Vaki: web dashboard
Já.is: Widget & Gadget

#Tímavera

2017 - Current

Time tracking for contractors. Designed for small companies with simple needs: track projects, hours & locations. Frontend engineering, devops, customer support and daily operations. Made the iOS & Android apps with JavaScript and React Native. Website with React. Set up continuous deployments with CircleCI & Docker. timavera.com

Web dashboard for Tímavera time tracking

#Branded Websites & Email

2018 - Current

Digital presence for individuals and companies. Branded email using leading providers such as Fastmail and Gmail. Websites showcasing area of expertise, past projects or simple contact pages.

Screenshot from malco.is, a simple site with contact details

#Activity Stream

2017 - 2018

Operations intelligence for Live Entertainment & Sports. Iceland’s Startup of the Year in 2017 and AI/ML Startup of the Year in 2018. Created and maintained dashboards and visualisations for the AI engine. JavaScript, TypeScript & Mithril. Remote contractor. activitystream.com

#Vaki

Vaki Aquaculture Systems Ltd. is the industry leader in fish counting and size estimation of live fish. Vaki offers a variety of solutions but the one I worked on was the Biomass Daily system. The gist of it is this: you are a company that operates fish farms. On each farm there are multiple sea cages with salmon. You rent hardware frames from Vaki and lower them into the sea cages. As the salmon swim through the frames their weight is measured. This data is then aggregated and analysed in various dashboards. vakiiceland.is

#iPhone App: BD Monitor

2016 - 2017

This project was about creating an auxiliary mobile app to monitor the status of the hardware frames that run 24/7 capturing size estimations. Before this app, users would check the current hardware status on a PC. With an app the process became more convenient for the site managers, who are often on the move. Product development from sketches all the way to a finished mobile app.

The app was written in JavaScript ES2015 and React Native.

Early mockups demonstrating bottom navigation and History view

#Web Dashboard: biomassdaily.com

2014 - 2015

Access is restricted to users of the Biomass Daily system. The system has been in daily active use by Vaki's customers and employees since its launch in 2015.

Main features:

Dashboard of current operational status of hardware in the field.
Trend analysis of weight data to see how population is progressing.
Distribution analysis to observe weight distribution and health of population.
Administration section to manage users and privileges.
Secure Login with username and email.
Multiple languages: English, Spanish, Norwegian & Icelandic.

Technical implementation:

Single page application web site. Written in JavaScript (version ES5) and structured in the React library. User interface structure provided by Bootstrap. More technical details can be found in my blog post: Retrospective on React.
Backend provides all data through a web service API and JSON. Written and maintained by Vaki in C# and Microsoft SQL Server database.

This was the project that sparked my interest in frontend development. A very small 1-2 week project I worked on back in 2010 for Já.is, the official phonebook registry of Iceland. Super simple OSX Widget and Windows Gadget dashboard tools, obsolete today as operating systems have dropped support. You would start typing some name and it would drop down an autocomplete menu of possible results. Once enter was pressed it would redirect to the ja.is website.

Screenshot of the Já.is OSX Widget and Windows Gadget

This was one of the most fun projects I worked on. I didn't know it at the time but this project planted a seed that would eventually lead me to specialising in dashboards as a career.

Jón Rúnar Helgason