Niclas Söderström is a software developer and system architect based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building user-focused web and mobile applications. He blends front-end expertise (Angular/AngularJS, React Native) with backend experience in Spring ecosystems to deliver sustainable, value-driven solutions. Comfortable both sketching high-level concepts and diving into implementation details, he has led frontend efforts, created POCs, and guided developer teams on UX and best practices. Niclas has contributed to the React Native community by maintaining the Ignite Bowser boilerplate—updating dependencies, build configs, and generators—to keep fast mobile scaffolding current. His background in usability, rhetoric and Japanese studies gives him a nuanced perspective on user experience and cross-cultural product design. Colleagues describe him as collaborative and pragmatic, focused on creating intuitive experiences that scale to millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Rhetoric, Rhetoric at Södertörn University
Japanese, Japanese at Nanzan University
M.Sc., Computer and System Science, M.Sc., Computer and System Science at Stockholm University
Bowser is now re-integrated into Ignite CLI! Head to https://github.com/infinitered/ignite to check it out.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Contributions:36 commits, 15 PRs, 41 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Niclas primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Bowser boilerplate for a React Native project. Their contributions included updating React Native and related dependencies (React Navigation, Typescript, etc.), and modifying build configurations, as well as fixing associated bugs and implementing splash screen functionality. Furthermore, they also added new generators like React.FunctionComponent.
Contributions:1 commit, 299 pushes, 146 branches in 1 day
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Niclas Söderström - Software Developer at GMP Systems AB