Karl Kihlström
Frontend Tech Lead Developer at Worldline
Karlskrona, Sweden
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Top SchoolKarl Kihlström is a Frontend Tech Lead with 12 years of experience building polished web interfaces and leading frontend delivery from Sweden. He blends a strong design sensibility with hands-on implementation, having contributed notable open-source UI components for Home Assistant like mini-media-player and mini-graph-card that emphasize responsive, minimalistic controls and animation. Currently leading frontend efforts at Worldline while consulting through Code Dash AB, he has a track record of digitalizing industrial workflows and shipping production web apps. A former teaching assistant and Ericsson student consultant, he pairs practical mentoring and UX-first thinking with deep frontend craft. Unusually, his open-source work shows attention to small UX details—optional TTS inputs, artwork borders and refined animations—that reflect a product-minded engineer.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Technology IT-Media, High School Diploma, Technology IT-Media at EkbackeskolanBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
lit-element10
graph10
uid10
home-assistant10
javascript10
web-components10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
graphing10
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kalkih/mini-graph-card
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 14 reviews, 238 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Karl primarily contributed to the user interface of the Home Assistant Lovelace UI graph card. Their commits show significant changes to the `mini-graph-card.js` and `mini-graph-lib.js` files, focusing on refactoring code and implementing new features such as font size, line color options, hide/show options for elements, and bar chart functionality. They also improved the responsive design of the graph and its legend and implemented animation effects.
lovelace-uilovelaceassistanthacshome-assistant
olund/Bling
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:80 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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