Peder Johnsen
Founder at Nattsvart Records
Barry, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPeder Johnsen is a Norway-born software developer and founder with 14 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, currently leading engineering at Dynamo Cover and running two founder ventures including Nattsvart Records. He cut his teeth in PHP and telecom education, spent 7+ years at Ayoa shipping features in CoffeeScript, Node, React and React Native, and has led and mentored small engineering teams. A practical problem-solver, he contributes to open-source front-end projects—improving usability and stability in popular tools like the emojionearea picker—and enjoys tackling both sole-developer and collaborative ownership of features. Based in Barry, Wales, he balances engineering with a creative life as a hobby musician and record spinner, bringing a maker’s curiosity and steady delivery to product-focused teams.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (9)
debug10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
plugin-development9
html6
css6
firefox6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mervick/emojionearea
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Emoji Picker Plugin for jQuery
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Peder primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the EmojioneArea plugin. They addressed a `TypeError` related to undefined variables and worked on maintaining consistency in search functionality across different tones. Further contributions included resolving an issue where emojis weren't displaying after tone changes and removing the search term, as well as building the distribution files for the project. These commits directly improved the usability and stability of the emoji picker.
pickeremojiemoji-pickerjquery
pederjohnsen/emoji-mart
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
One component to pick them all 👊🏼
Contributions:9 PRs, 81 pushes, 49 branches in 2 years 3 months
vuereactpick
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