Morten Barklund
Staff Full-stack Engineer at Barki
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMorten Barklund is a Staff Full-stack Engineer based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable web systems and leading engineering teams. He combines deep front-end expertise in React, testing, and accessibility with hands-on full‑stack delivery, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp and the AMP WordPress plugin. As a serial founder and CEO (Coding Heaven, Hyperreactive.io, Barki) he blends product-minded leadership with day-to-day coding discipline, ensuring systems remain predictable as they scale. Known for pragmatic refactors and UX-focused component work, he has improved editor tooling, accessibility labels, and cross-browser rendering in widely used web-story editors. With an MSc in Informatics, he pairs academic grounding with two decades of practical web and architecture experience dating back to early multimedia and Flash work.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Informatics, Informatics, Master of Science in Informatics, Informatics at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
English, Danish
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Github Skills (16)
html10
wordpress10
css10
e2e-testing10
javascript10
styled-components10
google-amp10
react10
e2e10
ampl10
e2e-test10
wordpress-plugin9
git7
xcode6
ios6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Web Stories for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1455 reviews, 548 commits, 376 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Morten focused on developing and implementing user interface components with React and related technologies in the Web Stories for WordPress project. Their contributions included creating a new story editor, implementing UI elements such as buttons and a switch, and refactoring and styling existing elements. These changes were focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the story editor.
wordpresswordpress-pluginampweb-stories
ampproject/amp-wp
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 23 PRs, 145 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Morten primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress AMP plugin, focusing on the AMP Stories editor. Their work involved fixing bugs related to text block resizing and vertical alignment within the editor, ensuring proper rendering across different browsers. They also introduced new features, such as adding an accessibility label for video blocks and enabling context menus. Furthermore, the user refactored testing code and updated CSS rules for improved functionality.
reservation-systemwordpress-apiwordpressphpwordpress-admin
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