Ricard Fredin
Senior Frontend Engineer at Alva Labs
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolRicard Fredin is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Stockholm with 14+ years of full-stack experience and a strong focus on frontend craftsmanship using vanilla JavaScript, React, and Vue.js. He has led migrations and modernizations—from AngularJS to React and from legacy build systems to Vite/TypeScript/Tailwind—improving developer experience and delivery cadence at product and platform teams. A pragmatic early adopter of AI-assisted development, he evaluates and drives new tooling across squads to raise code quality and productivity. Ricard contributes to open-source front-end utilities (notably enhancements to the lory.js touch slider) and brings a detail-oriented, user-first mindset to component-driven architecture. Outside engineering he’s a father of five, a background that quietly informs his collaborative, patient approach to team leadership and communication.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Systemtekniker, Stridsfordon 90, Systemtekniker, Stridsfordon 90 at Arméns Tekniska SkolaQualified vocational university college diploma, Agile Web Developer, Qualified vocational university college diploma, Agile Web Developer at KYH
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
front-end-development10
event-handling10
html9
css9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
border6
vite6
environment-variables6
react-hooks6
react6
react-popper6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
loryjs/lory
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
☀ Touch enabled minimalistic slider written in vanilla JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ricard primarily contributed to the front-end development of the lory.js library. Their commits focused on enhancing the demo and core functionality by adding features such as percentage-based slide widths and rewind functionality. They added demo cases for showcasing these features, including styling updates, and addressed minor spelling and code consistency issues. The user also implemented custom event handling within the library to allow for more flexible integration and extension of the slider.
vanilla-javascript
Cordazar/crest
Mar 2013 - Jul 2019
REST API Server for MongoDB
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 years 5 months
mongodbrestrest-api
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