Hampus Tågerud is a Lead Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building intuitive, simplicity-first web and mobile interfaces from Kinna, Sweden. He progressed through engineering roles at Stravito, where he helped shape a cloud-native knowledge platform that uses ML and natural language search to surface market insights. Hampus blends hands-on frontend leadership with mobile expertise—his notable open-source contribution added FontAwesome 5 support and iOS rendering fixes to the widely used react-native-vector-icons library. Comfortable navigating product and engineering trade-offs, he focuses on shipping polished UX while mentoring teams and improving developer workflows. His background in system development (BSc) and an early music education hint at a creative, detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Systemutveckling, Bachelor of Science (BS), Systemutveckling at Malmö högskola
Gymnasieexamen, Gymnasieexamen at Cybergymnasiet
Associate of Arts (AA), Guitar Performance, Associate of Arts (AA), Guitar Performance at Musicians Institute
Customizable Icons for React Native with support for image source and full styling.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Hampus primarily contributed to the implementation of FontAwesome 5 support within the React Native vector icons library. Their work included integrating the FontAwesome 5 glyphs, fonts, and implementing methods to render the icons correctly on iOS. They also addressed several bugs related to loading and rendering issues, and incorporated workarounds to correctly select the appropriate font weight. Additionally, the user was responsible for upgrading the FontAwesome library and ensuring its proper integration with the React Native project.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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Hampus Tågerud - Lead Frontend Engineer at Stravito