Espen Klem
Interaction Designer at Knowit
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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RockstarEspen Klem is an Interaction Designer in Oslo with 12 years of experience crafting usable products and large sites that prioritize real user needs. He specializes in search, user behavior, product development and long-term site maintenance, combining UX sensibilities with hands-on front-end and full-stack work. At Knowit he tinkers with browser-based search—contributing to notable open-source projects like the search-index library by adapting it for webpack, improving demos, accessibility and data pathing. His background spans agency and in-house roles where he’s led usability testing, traffic analysis, small CMS and plugin development, and forum/community moderation. Pragmatic and user-focused, he pairs analytic attention to traffic and behavior with incremental engineering to turn insights into measurable improvements.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
indexing10
searching10
webpack10
webpacker10
nlp8
ui-design7
front-end-development7
uid7
html6
full-text-search6
nodejs6
http-header6
offline-web-app6
leveldb6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fergiemcdowall/search-index
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
A persistent, network resilient, full text search library for the browser and Node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 118 commits, 30 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Espen primarily focused on enhancing the browser-based functionality of the search-index library. They implemented and debugged a demo application for the library, integrating it into a browser environment using webpack. Their contributions included fixing examples, adding search capabilities, and adjusting UI elements for better usability. The user also addressed pathing issues related to data loading and made accessibility improvements.
nlpbrowserfull-text-searchnode-jsresilient
eklem/batr
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Bundle and test CommonJS and ESM in NodeJS and UMD in the browser with AvaJS and Playwright. And repeat with i.e GitHub CI.
Contributions:17 releases, 279 commits, 226 PRs in 1 year 8 months
browsercommonjsbundleesmtesting
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