Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

Freelance applied scientist and engineer with engagements spanning LLM/RAG document-intelligence pipelines for post-trade finance operations, geospatial and climate-data prototypes supporting customer discovery in early-stage startups, and embedded control software for art installations and wearable systems. Consistent focus on helping small teams move quickly from idea to validated, demonstrable outcomes.

Leading development of the Urban Knowledge Discovery Engine, combining focused web crawling, ML-based content curation, and intelligent search (RAG/LLMs) to give urban professionals structured access to intervention-impact knowledge. In parallel, deliver custom geospatial analysis and decision-support services for clients in real estate and sustainable urban development.

Principal Data Engineer building urban-data intelligence for real-estate investment—turning 15+ heterogeneous sources into 250+ time series and 10+ combined indices, exposed via APIs and search. Co-developed the core insight system, coordinated agile engineering in a four-person team, enforced data/search quality through systematic evaluation, and shipped an initial MVP in under 3 months.