Alexander Røyne-helgesen
Team Lead And Senior Frontend Developer at Knowit
Sandvika, Norway
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Top SchoolAlexander Røyne-helgesen is a Principal Engineer and frontend specialist with nearly 30 years of experience guiding complex, user-facing web initiatives and strengthening engineering practices across large consultancies. He blends hands-on delivery—building design systems, developer platforms and lightweight SPAs—with strategic leadership that elevates frontend quality and cross-team collaboration. Known for challenging the status quo, he prioritizes human-centric, sustainable technology and continuous learning while scaling solutions used across countries and thousands of developers. A long-time open source maintainer and event organizer, he actively cultivates communities and knowledge sharing, from internal design systems to company-wide developer summits. Based in Sandvika, Norway, he pairs deep frontend craft with pragmatic architecture and a knack for making large organizations more consistent, efficient, and resilient.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology Information Technology at Westerdals Oslo ACTInformasjonsteknologi, Informasjonsteknologi at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Bachelor Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology Information Technology at The Norwegian School of Information TechnologyArtium Allmenn og administrativt, Artium Allmenn og administrativt at Dønski Videregående Skole
English, French, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
stylus10
automation10
svg-sprite10
specification10
inspect10
browser10
api10
html10
json10
apm10
changelog10
axe10
dom10
sketch-app10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
phun-ky/moebius
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
Automatically generate color palettes!
Contributions:12 releases, 5 reviews, 33 PRs in 5 months
analogouschromecomplementcssdesign
phun-ky/speccer
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
SPECCER was originally created to simplify documenting components in a design system, but it can be used to annotate or highlight any HTML element on a webpage. If you need to draw attention to elements, SPECCER is your tool!
Contributions:108 releases, 26 reviews, 15 commits in 4 years 1 month
inspectspecsannotationdissectzero
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