Patrik Åkerstrand
Lead Architect at Schibsted Media Group
Greater Uppsala Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolPatrik Åkerstrand is a Lead Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable web platforms and front-end architecture for major media organizations. He blends systems engineering discipline with user-centered design, advocating continuous user involvement and data-driven decision making to maximize product value. Patrik has led front-end platforms at Schibsted and modernized high-traffic news experiences at Aftonbladet, shipping features from personalized recommenders to cross-iframe integration. Technically versatile, he moves comfortably between architecture, Node.js backends, JavaScript ecosystems (React, Web Components, RxJS) and build tooling like Grunt/Gulp, while keeping an eye on emerging standards like ECMAScript modules. A former sole-developer founder, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with team leadership and a habit of continuous learning through conferences and courses. Based in Uppsala, he brings pragmatic craftsmanship and measurable decision-making to complex, user-facing systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ForsmarkMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Uppsala universitetComputer Science, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (112)
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Github contributions (5)
ryanflorence/react-router-restore-scroll
May 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
PAkerstrand/lexical
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
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