Håkon Krogh
Senior Software Engineer at Tana
Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolHåkon Krogh is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader based in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway, with 11 years of professional experience and 15+ years drawn to hard technical challenges. He combines hands-on frontend craftsmanship—demonstrated by UI-focused open-source work improving accessibility, dragging behavior and event handling in React components—with strategic engineering leadership from roles as Head of Engineering and Developer Advocate at Crystallize and New Normal Group. At Tana he continues to ship production-quality systems while mentoring teams and shaping architecture. His background in embedded systems and early support leadership gives him a practical, systems-oriented perspective that helps bridge product, operations and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineer, embedded systems, Bachelor, Computer Engineer, embedded systems at University College Southeast Norway
Norwegian, Danish, English, English, Norwegian, Danish
Github Skills (13)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
component-design10
react10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
exp8
css8
accessibility8
user-experience8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
markusenglund/react-switch
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
A draggable toggle-switch component for React. Check out the demo at:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Håkon primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of a React toggle-switch component. They addressed label association by implementing an `onChange` event handler to respect label clicks, enhanced focus/blur event handling, and optimized dragging behavior. Furthermore, they improved the `onChange` logic and updated tests.
reacttoggletoggle-switchswitch-componentswitch
CrystallizeAPI/examples
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Open source examples of real-world imports, exports and mutations of Crystallize API
Contributions:67 commits, 9 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years 5 months
apicrystallizecrystalexportsmutations
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