Herman Wikner
Senior Software Engineer at Sanity
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolHerman Wikner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with a decade of experience specializing in front-end development and interaction design. He has risen through roles at Sanity—moving from Frontend Developer to Senior Software Engineer—where he focuses on improving developer-facing tools like Sanity Studio. His open-source contributions include migrating core UI components from JavaScript to TypeScript, refactoring code to use Sanity UI and styled-components, and tackling subtle presence and change-indicator bugs in the widely used sanity-io/sanity repo. Herman blends a designer’s eye from his Interaction Design background with pragmatic engineering, making UI codebases more maintainable and type-safe. Colleagues know him for methodical refactors that reduce technical debt and for quietly improving developer experience in large codebases.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Interaction Design, Bachelor's degree, Interaction Design at Malmö University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (12)
component-development10
uid10
typescript10
web-components10
typescripts10
frontend10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
styled-components9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 439 reviews, 527 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Herman primarily focused on fixing and refactoring components within the "code-input" package of the Sanity Studio, migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript, and improving code quality. They addressed change indicator and presence issues, refactored components, and addressed various TypeScript and linting errors. The user also refactored the UI code base to use the Sanity UI framework, replacing highlight markers CSS with styled-components for more maintainable and flexible styling.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
hermanwikner/react-connect-lines
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Connect elements with lines
Contributions:65 commits, 16 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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