Orvar Segerström
Director Of Engineering at Timely
Umeå, Sweden
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Top SchoolOrvar Segerström is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building and leading front-end-first teams, currently shaping product and engineering at Timely from Umeå, Sweden. He combines deep front-end architecture expertise—driving a large TypeScript migration and frontend tooling—with hands-on systems work, having shipped a cross-platform native desktop app in Rust to thousands of users. Comfortable across the stack, he also has strong Java, .NET and database skills and a Master’s in Computer Science, with special interests in functional programming, strong type systems and compilers. Orvar contributes to open-source UI work, notably improving theming and SSR in the Lemmy web app to eliminate theme flashing and optimize builds. He prefers remote or local-hybrid roles and brings a pragmatic blend of technical leadership, mentorship and low-level curiosity that surfaces in both product-facing and infrastructure decisions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Umeå UniversityChalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (12)
inferno10
javascript10
webpacker10
webpack10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
css8
html8
react7
sass7
lems6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
The official web app for lemmy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Orvar focused on front-end development tasks within the Lemmy UI repository. They implemented Webpack configuration changes for caching and build optimization. Key contributions include integrating theme support using Inferno-Helmet and refactoring server-side rendering to improve the user experience and address theme flashing. The user also updated client-side initialization and component structure to reflect these changes.
pythonlemmylink-aggregatorredditinferno
0rvar/js-source-mapper
Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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