Niklas Lindgren
Head Of Tech at Music Glue
London, England, Finland
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Top SchoolNiklas Lindgren is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building and leading web teams, currently serving as Head of Tech at Music Glue in London. He blends deep front-end and back-end expertise—TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node, Go and Elixir—with operational experience in microservices, GCP and CI/CD to ship scalable SPA and API-driven products. Promoted internally from senior engineer to team lead and then head of tech, he pairs technical mentorship with pragmatic delivery and has run hiring, guilds and internal training. An active community organiser (co-organiser of NodeSchool Helsinki) and open-source contributor, he has improved TypeScript typings in the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repo. Known for rapid learning and autonomy, he brings both independent execution and collaborative leadership to complex engineering challenges.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Åbo Akademi University
Finnish, Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
16,660reputation
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266answers
18questions
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Github Skills (32)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
php10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
mysql9
console9
checkbox9
javascript9
printing9
ajax9
debugging9
datetime9
jquery9
type-definition9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2018 - Apr 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 16 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Niklas contributed to the DefinitelyTyped repository, specifically focusing on the `node-fetch` type definitions. Their work involved reverting a change, reformatting code with prettier, fixing readonly properties, and adding a type definition for the Blob constructor arguments and adding tests. These changes focused on improving the correctness and completeness of the TypeScript type definitions within the repository.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
nikcorg/funcalicious
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:75 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
deliciousfunky
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