Klaus Nygård
Senior Staff Engineer at Wolt
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKlaus Nygård is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Helsinki with 12 years of hands-on experience shaping frontend architecture, design systems, and developer platforms. At Wolt he has driven frontend direction across products and tooling, helped found the company’s design system, and built durable platforms that let teams ship interfaces at scale. Comfortable toggling between setting strategy and shipping code, he’s skilled at mentoring, hiring, and introducing practices that raise delivery quality. His open-source contributions show a practical focus on taming complexity in frontend libraries, such as improving React share components and prop clarity. A former startup founder with an M.Sc. from Aalto and a background in mechanical engineering and avionics maintenance, he brings both product instincts and systems thinking to early-stage, ambiguity-heavy problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
F/A-18 Hornet Auxiliary Mechanic, F/A-18 Hornet Auxiliary Mechanic at Finnish Airforce Technical AcademyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science / Product Development, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science / Product Development at Aalto University
English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
react-components10
front-end-development10
react10
react-component10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nygardk/react-share
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Social media share buttons and share counts for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 10 reviews, 363 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Klaus removed unnecessary log messages from the source code. They added support for Pinterest share buttons to the React share library, which included changes to the demo files. Furthermore, the user updated the prop types of the share buttons to be more descriptive. Finally, the user corrected the incorrect behavior where the className was not being propagated correctly on the share buttons.
sharingcountspinterestreactjsinstagram
nygardk/BreakJS
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
Responsive breakpoints in Javascript
Contributions:57 commits, 5 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years
matchmediaresponsive-designcssjavascriptmedia-query
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