Erik Hedberg
Founder at Cheerful Coders AB
Uppsala, Sweden
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Top SchoolErik Hedberg is a founder and frontend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building fast, user-centric web applications from startups to established product teams. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he founded Cheerful Coders to help teams deliver value faster through engineering, technical coaching, and pragmatic architecture. His background spans modern React/TypeScript frontends, performance-driven SPAs, and serverless backends in Go provisioned via Terraform, with hands-on experience at companies like Klarna and Detectify. He combines technical leadership—having led and scrum-mastered teams—with deep implementation skills, often working in mob programming settings to accelerate shared ownership. Notably, he has repeatedly transformed legacy server-rendered sites into high-performance SPAs, cutting technical debt and shortening release cycles. Practical, user-focused, and coachable, he balances product-minded thinking with rigorous attention to UX and performance.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Technology Engineering, Master of Science, Information Technology Engineering at Uppsala universitet
English
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Github Skills (91)
storybook10
browserify10
html-webpack-plugin10
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
react-framework10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
ssg10
vercel10
nextjs10
webpack-plugin10
server-rendering10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gish/wr-latest-daily-redirect
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Site redirecting to latest daily thread in /r/weightroom
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 92 PRs in 2 years 11 months
threadruby
BreakitSE/breakit-v2
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 reviews, 26 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 months
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