Håkon Underbakke
Co-Founder, Frontend at Ryfylke React AS
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
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Top SchoolHåkon Underbakke is a frontend-focused entrepreneur and senior engineer with 12 years of experience building accessible, design-minded web applications and data visualizations using React and TypeScript. As CEO and co-founder of Ryfylke React AS and Buildr Labs, he combines hands-on component work and architecture refactors with product thinking and UX-led design, having delivered projects for clients like Telenor, Equinor and Neddi. He’s contributed to prominent open-source UI work in IBM’s Carbon Design System, improving React components and TypeScript types, and has published tooling used in production (rtk-query-loader). Known for simplifying complex real-time interfaces and migrating large codebases (webpack→vite, Remix→React Router), he pairs practical engineering with an experienced designer’s eye. Outside of work he’s also a longtime musician and electronic producer, a background that informs his attention to rhythm and detail in user experience.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IKT, Information Technology, IKT, Information Technology at Gand VGSVinjar SkuleElenergi, Electrician, Elenergi, Electrician at Sauda VGSSand Skule
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
front-end-development10
sys10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
storybook8
sc7
scs7
html6
listview6
php6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Håkon primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining React components within the carbon-design-system repository. Their contributions include refactoring the `CodeSnippet` component, adding new features such as the `copyText` prop, and updating prop types. They also added stories to Storybook for the `CodeSnippet` component, demonstrating their involvement in UI development and testing. Further, they made various TypeScript type additions and refinements across different components, and updated snapshots, contributing to the overall quality and maintainability of the system.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
ryfylke-react-as/ryfylke-react-as.github.io
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:106 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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