Alexander Nanberg
Senior Software Engineer at Quartr
Greater Örebro Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Nanberg is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of web development experience, specializing in front-end engineering using React, TypeScript and CSS while maintaining full-stack fluency. He has driven product and performance improvements as a founding engineer at startups and as a senior contributor at companies like Acast, where he owned UI component libraries, led cross-team front-end initiatives and helped migrate infrastructure to IAC on AWS. Alexander is an active open-source contributor, with meaningful fixes and accessibility work in high-profile projects such as Gatsby, Downshift and Decap CMS, and has modernized tooling and testing in widely used repos. Known for shipping delightful user experiences and pragmatic technical leadership, he also brings a knack for performance optimizations—10x app load improvements and real-time sync—from his startup work. Based in Örebro, Sweden, he balances engineering with a passion for football, health, and occasional open-source adventures.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Grillska Gymnasiet
English, Swedish
Github Skills (36)
accessibility10
babel610
javascript10
web-application10
testing10
component-development10
css10
ui-design10
mdx10
uid10
react-testing-library10
rollupjs10
react-testing10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
downshift-js/downshift
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
🏎 A set of primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete, combobox or select dropdown components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 20 PRs, 1 push in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the `downshift` React component library. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to memory leaks and keyboard event handling, along with upgrading dependencies such as react-testing-library. They also addressed accessibility concerns by ensuring correct behavior for button interactions. Their contributions included testing and code refactoring.
wai-ariadropdownprimitivesautocompletereact-modal
ChristopherBiscardi/gatsby-mdx
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Gatsby+MDX • Transformers, CMS UI Extensions, and Ecosystem Components for ambitious projects
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 16 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Gatsby-MDX project by modifying and refactoring existing code and upgrading dependencies. They addressed issues related to plugin configuration and string references within the `gatsby-mdx` framework, as well as updating to newer versions of tools like Jest. Further work involved refactoring the mdx-renderer component to use hooks and adapting code to align with the renaming of the `@mdx-js/tag` package.
gatsbycmsreacttransformersgatsby-starter
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