Fredrik Boström
Senior Developer at Vincit
Raseborg, Finland
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Top SchoolFredrik Boström is a senior full-stack developer based in Raseborg, Finland, with over 12 years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for coding that began at age 12 and web work since 1996. He has moved from UI roles to senior engineering and Scrum Master responsibilities, leading teams of up to ten people and driving both architectural and UX decisions across startups, academia, and large enterprises. Primarily focused on JavaScript web apps, Fredrik combines stubborn problem-solving with goal-oriented delivery, often running sprint demos, planning sessions, and hands-on development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the popular Restangular AngularJS library by adding features like ETag handling, URL normalization and robust testing—showing attention to code quality and API ergonomics. Motivated by continuous learning and visible results, he thrives in consultant roles where he shapes technical direction while shipping production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Jakobstads gymnasiumMaster's Degree, Master's Degree at Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki
Swedish, Finnish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
api-rest10
javascript10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
angularjs10
rest-api10
git-repository9
git9
unit-testing9
github9
html6
sorting6
ruby-on-rails6
mod-rewrite6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mgonto/restangular
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
AngularJS service to handle Rest API Restful Resources properly and easily
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 62 commits, 30 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Fredrik primarily contributed to enhancing the Restangular library, focusing on features such as `setPlainByDefault` and ETag header handling. They implemented and tested functionality to prevent the addition of Restangular methods to the response objects and collections. The user also added test cases, fixed lint problems, and refactored the spec file, demonstrating a strong focus on maintaining code quality and functionality within the project. Further contributions included fixes for copy functionality and adding support for URL normalization and custom methods using regular expressions.
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bostrom/restangular
Oct 2016 - May 2020
AngularJS service to handle Rest API Restful Resources properly and easily
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
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