Petter Kjelkenes
Senior Developer at Aplia AS
Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPetter Kjelkenes is a Senior Developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications across PHP/Symfony backends and modern front-ends in the React ecosystem, with additional work in Java, Node and Python. He has led and contributed to medium-to-large projects including eCommerce platforms, CMS integrations and single-page apps, and currently drives development at Aplia AS. An open-source enthusiast, he has contributed UI components to the ember-paper project, improving accessibility and documentation for Material Design in Ember. Petter combines pragmatic full-stack engineering with a history of leading teams and technical decisions, grounded in a Bachelor's in Informatics and early systems work dating back to IT apprenticeships and university projects.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary course Electro, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Elementary course Electro, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fyllingsdalen VGSInformation Communications Technology, Information Communications Technology at Bjørgvin VGSCertificate of completed apprenticeship, ICT apprentice, Certificate of completed apprenticeship, ICT apprentice at Universitetet i Bergen / University of Bergen (UiB)Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Høgskolen i Telemark (HiT)University Admission Certification, Supplementary General Studies, University Admission Certification, Supplementary General Studies at Stend Vgs
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (15)
front-end-development10
handlebars10
ember10
ui-components10
javascript9
material-design9
jmsserializerbundle6
php6
validation6
codeigniter6
playframework6
symfony6
bitbucket6
serialization6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adopted-ember-addons/ember-paper
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
The Ember approach to Material Design.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 111 commits, 35 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Petter primarily contributed to the implementation of user interface (UI) components and features, focusing on the Ember framework. Their work involved modifying and creating components such as paper-slider, paper-item, and paper-autocomplete, integrating them with the overall design. They also addressed issues related to component functionality and styling, including the integration of custom templates and support for features such as floating labels. Furthermore, the user updated existing templates and added new examples to the documentation to enhance the component's usability.
ember-addonapproachember-paperembermaterial-design
peec/ember-paper
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:170 pushes, 22 branches in 7 months
ember-addonapproachembermaterial-design
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