Ivar Borthen
Senior Utvikler at Sopra Steria
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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SeniorIvar Borthen is a senior frontend developer and UX specialist based in Bergen with 12 years of hands-on experience crafting web experiences across industries. He combines a background in art direction, game design, animation and illustration with pragmatic frontend engineering to deliver polished, user-centred interfaces. Recent roles include architecting Next.js/Vercel/Sanity stacks and shared React component libraries for high-traffic sites like eviny.no and bkk.no, and leading UX-focused teams as Tech Lead. He thrives in agile teams that ship quickly and values smart, practical solutions rather than theoretical perfection. Ivar has a strong interest in integrating AI into customer-facing products and business workflows, and he brings a rare mix of visual design sensibility and production-grade coding. Colleagues rely on him for both high-level interaction design and hands-on frontend implementation.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
typescript10
monorepo10
react10
storybook9
razzle9
frontend9
android8
server-side-rendering8
ios8
react-native8
cross-platform7
backgrounds7
graphql6
mobile6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Keyteq/meny-butikkdekor-foll
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 185 PRs, 166 pushes in 8 months
wearecolours/parallaxy
Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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