Niklas Von Hertzen
Principal Software Engineer at Riot Games
Singapore
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Top SchoolNiklas Von Hertzen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Singapore with 15 years of experience building web and game-related platforms, currently driving architecture and delivery at Riot Games. He progressed through roles from Full Stack Engineer to Principal at Riot, demonstrating deep product-facing engineering and team leadership within a large-scale gaming company. Earlier stints founding and building PldX (acquired into Alienware Arena) and leading development at Reaktor show entrepreneurial instincts and hands-on ownership across front- and back-end systems. He contributes to open source front-end tooling—improving feedback.js with screenshot annotation, blackout/highlight features and API refactors—illustrating a focus on UX and practical developer ergonomics. With a Master’s in Information Systems and a track record of shipping production-grade features at scale, he blends product sensibility with pragmatic engineering. A less obvious strength: he consistently moves between startup speed and enterprise rigor, making him effective at both innovation and operational stability.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Economics Information Systems Science, Master’s Degree Economics Information Systems Science at Hanken School of Economics
English, Finnish, Swedish, French
Stackoverflow
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400answers
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zend-framework
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canvas
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dom
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facebook
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javascript
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contenteditable
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
jquery10
canvas10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
screen-shot10
html10
src9
lib9
ajax9
zend-framework9
json9
contenteditable9
facebook9
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
niklasvh/feedback.js
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Feedback form with screenshot
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily focused on enhancing the `feedback.js` library, which provides a feedback form with screenshot functionality. Their contributions include implementing highlight and blackout features within the screenshot tool, allowing users to annotate screenshots. The user also refactored the API and structure of the library, and added a license to the minified version. This suggests an effort to improve the user interface and overall usability of the feedback mechanism.
feedback-formfeedbackscreenshot
niklasvh/html2canvas
Jul 2011 - Jan 2022
Screenshots with JavaScript
Contributions:20 releases, 2 reviews, 861 commits in 10 years 8 months
javascriptdomscreenshotsscreenshot
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