Gabriel Nordeborn
Frontend Developer, Partner at Arizon
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Nordeborn is a frontend developer and partner at Arizon with 11 years of experience building React and React Native applications and tooling. He focuses on modern front-end ecosystems—Relay, GraphQL, TypeScript/Flow, ReasonML/ReScript—and enjoys solving tricky engineering problems rather than chasing particular frameworks. Gabriel has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Relay and the ReScript compiler, improving compiler internals, plugin extensibility, and store updater directives. His background in experimental psychology gives him a user-centered perspective on UI behavior and product decisions. Based in Stockholm, he combines startup-minded product delivery with deep technical craftsmanship across both app and compiler-level code. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, curious, and comfortable diving into language-level refactors when required.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Experimental Psychology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Experimental Psychology at Lund University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
compiler-development10
pattern-matching10
wpgraphql10
ocaml10
relayer10
type-system10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
rescript10
nodejs10
relay10
refactor9
refactoring9
typescripts8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rescript-lang/rescript
May 2022 - Aug 2022
ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:347 reviews, 8 commits, 193 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on refactoring the ReScript compiler code, converting OCaml syntax to ReScript syntax in multiple files. They also made formatting improvements, including removing redundant parentheses and adjusting spacing. Their work involved addressing issues related to record definitions and pattern matching within the compiler. Furthermore, they contributed to the implementation of features related to unboxed variants, type coercion, and variant type spreads.
altjscompilerjavascriptrescript
facebook/relay
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the Relay compiler, enhancing its capabilities for various use cases. Their work included allowing language plugins to extend the schema, providing mechanisms for overriding file generation behavior, and enabling plugins to define module naming conventions. The user also implemented and refined store updater directives like `@deleteEdge`, `@appendNode`, and `@prependNode` to update the store with edges, which involved adding functionalities to the Relay compiler's core logic. These changes improved the flexibility and feature set of the Relay framework.
data-drivenreactrelayreact-applicationsjavascript-framework
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