Freya Gustavsson
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Luleå, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolFreya Gustavsson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently shaping developer workflows and technical debt reduction for Convert2RHEL at Red Hat in Luleå. She blends hands-on front-end expertise—contributing to PatternFly React component fixes and UX polish—with full-stack work on projects like the snoowrap Reddit API wrapper, showing a knack for both UI detail and backend integrations. At Red Hat she has rotated between individual contributor and people-manager roles, reducing burnout and streamlining review processes to speed upstream delivery. Her pragmatic focus is on shipping reliable, usable features while minimizing developer friction across teams. Known for taking projects "a bit too big" on GitHub, she enjoys scaling prototypes into production-ready components. She holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Luleå University of Technology and favors practical, test-driven improvements that make teams more productive.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Luleå University of Technology
Swedish, English, Czech, Japanese, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
react-components10
testing10
typescript10
react-component10
chai10
typescript-types10
r-api10
typescripts10
react10
apidoc9
api9
patternfly9
html8
css8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
not-an-aardvark/snoowrap
Mar 2019 - May 2021
A JavaScript wrapper for the reddit API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 57 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Freya primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `/best` endpoint for the reddit API wrapper, implementing the necessary functionality in `src/snoowrap.js` and writing corresponding tests in `test/snoowrap.spec.js`. They also refactored the test suite to use camelCase and deprecated an old API endpoint, marking it as deprecated. Furthermore, they worked on implementing and testing a new Modmail feature, adding functionality to reply and archive conversations.
apiprawreddit-apijavascriptnodejs
patternfly/patternfly-react
May 2019 - Jan 2020
A set of React components for the PatternFly project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Freya primarily contributed to the development and refinement of React components within the PatternFly React library. Their work focused on fixing bugs, particularly related to Select, Modal, ClipboardCopy, FormGroup, Pagination, and Wizard components. They also addressed styling discrepancies, updated component functionality, and ensured proper display and behavior across the components, demonstrating a strong focus on user interface elements and user experience.
reactbootstrap3patternflyreact-componentsreactjs
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