Herman Byström
Frontend Engineer at Kustom
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHerman Byström is a Stockholm-based Frontend Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, accessible and type-safe web applications. He has driven platform-level improvements at BookBeat—introducing advanced TypeScript patterns, an App Router foundation for Next.js, a reusable component library, and automated internationalization without deployments. Comfortable across product, architecture and mentorship, he’s reduced server load through architectural changes and leads workshops on TypeScript generics. Before BookBeat he built production-grade frontends for multiple clients at an agency, focusing on maintainability, testing and designer-friendly tooling. Now at Kustom, he continues to blend hands‑on feature work with tech-heavy refactors and platform roadmapping. Colleagues know him for pragmatic composition patterns and a user-centered approach that scales beyond individual projects.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Development, Front End Development at MedieinstitutetData- och systemvetenskap med inriktning mot digitala medier, Data- och systemvetenskap med inriktning mot digitala medier at Stockholm University
Github Skills (14)
typescript9
payment-integration8
adyen8
django-admin6
react5
django5
dts5
typescript-definitions4
react-admin4
admin4
frontend3
cms1
python1
content-management1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hbystrom91/millhouse-corporate-blog-cms
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:96 PRs, 89 pushes, 28 branches in 1 month
phpmysqlphp-mysql
hbystrom91/herman_bystrom_todo
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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