Nicklas Gummesson
Software Engineer at Salsa
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolNicklas Gummesson is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on web technologies and the UI/UX/DX space, currently building products at Salsa from his base in Gijón, Spain. He’s worked across startups and scale-ups—including multiple stints at Dropbox and a senior front-end role at CARTO—bringing both hands-on polyglot engineering and deep front-end craftsmanship. Nicklas enjoys solving real user problems and delights in work beyond coding, with a strong interest in leadership, communication, processes, and organizational dynamics. He contributes to open-source front-end projects (notably helping modernize CartoDB’s carto.js map integrations) and favors practical refactors that keep complex systems maintainable. Colleagues know him for bridging design and engineering effectively and for leaning into developer experience as a product concern. He combines curiosity-driven breadth with focused depth in web UI, making interfaces that are both usable and enjoyable.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Software Engineering, BSc, Computer Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (5)
jscript10
javascript10
front-end-development10
leaflet10
testing10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/carto.js
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
CartoDB javascript library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 116 PRs, 194 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicklas primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the CartoDB javascript library. Their commits involved fixing typos and removing dead code within the test specifications, specifically related to Leaflet map view. They also refactored code to substitute Google Maps basemaps with Leaflet layers, ensuring continued functionality. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase with new Stamen map options.
cartodbjavascript
jsdom/jsdom-devtools-formatter
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Make jsdom elements look like real DOM elements in Chrome Devtools console
Contributions:3 releases, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 10 months
chromedevtoolsdomdom-elementjsdom
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