Jacob Rask
Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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RockstarJacob Rask is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Gothenburg with 16 years of experience building rich web experiences and backend systems across multiple languages. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Volvo Cars—most recently as a Staff Engineer and Web Platform Architect—bringing product-scale web platform expertise to large engineering organizations. A hands-on front-end specialist, Jacob has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Bootstrap and helped migrate the popular react-spring animation library to TypeScript, improving type safety and test coverage. He combines deep CSS/javascript knowledge with practical backend experience, and is known for turning nuanced UI requirements (such as responsive styling and abbreviation handling) into robust, well-documented solutions.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (39)
bootstrap10
scripting10
css10
typescript10
bash10
indentation10
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redux10
css-frameworks10
google-chrome10
urlencode10
typescript-types10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/react-spring
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
✌️ A spring physics based React animation library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 24 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on migrating the `react-spring` library to TypeScript. Their contributions included enabling TypeScript in the build configurations for Rollup and Babel, converting utility functions and interpolation functions to TypeScript, and adding types to helper functions and animated components. This work involved significant code changes to the core library, enhancing type safety and maintainability. Furthermore, they added tests for interpolation and animated components to ensure functionality.
animationreactanimation-libraryspring-physicssprings
twbs/bootstrap
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the Bootstrap framework's styling and documentation related to abbreviations. Their work involved modifying CSS and LESS files to adjust the appearance of abbreviations, particularly focusing on adding classes for uppercase initialisms and ensuring proper styling with the `title` attribute. They also updated the documentation to better explain the usage and visual representation of abbreviations within the framework. In addition, they made changes to the responsive CSS and container width.
cssjavascript-frameworkmobile-firstbootstrapjavascript
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