Erik Larsen
Senior Software Engineer at Grizzlyfrog
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Larsen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Trondheim with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack and embedded systems across .NET, Java, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks. He has delivered integrations and platform work for clients in finance, offshore, and energy—often tackling Dockerization, event-sourced architectures, and complex third‑party ERP integrations. A practical maintainer focused on code quality, he contributes to WordPress Gutenberg, fixing typos and improving maintainability in a widely used open-source editor. Equally comfortable designing PCBs and prototyping IoT and ROV projects, he blends hardware curiosity with production-grade software craftsmanship. Known for being a versatile problem solver, he moves between backend services, realtime visualization, and front-end UX while keeping systems robust and deployable.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
javascript10
gutenberg10
php9
html6
accessibility5
css5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the WordPress Gutenberg block editor project. They focused on removing text domains, replacing references, and fixing typos in various components, including the calendar and page-list blocks. They also updated variable names, corrected docblock typos, and removed whitespace, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, they were involved in fixing typos and contributing to the WordPress codebase.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
kebbet/wordpress-develop
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:692 pushes, 164 branches in 4 years
branchesversion-controlsubversionwordpresstrac
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