Rikard Wissing is a seasoned full-stack developer and entrepreneur with nine years of professional experience, co-founding COINiD to simplify offline cryptocurrency storage and shipping practical products that use nothing more than a spare phone. He works daily with React, Ember, Node and Ruby on Rails, and is actively exploring React Native and Bitcoin technologies in his free time. Based in Linköping, Sweden, Rikard blends hands-on engineering with startup grit—having founded e-commerce and game ventures earlier in his career that span PHP/MySQL sites and mobile/HTML5 games. He contributes to open-source projects such as nhost, where he improved Apollo Client integration to make authenticated GraphQL requests more reliable. Known as an “ordinary regular Swedish developer,” he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a curiosity for authentication and distributed systems.
The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Rikard primarily contributed to the `integrations/apollo` directory, modifying the code related to Apollo Client integration. They refactored the `createApolloClient` function by deprecating and replacing the `onError` and `link` options with `generateLinks`. Furthermore, the user added functionality to wait for a valid token before making API requests. These changes show a focus on enhancing the flexibility and reliability of the Apollo Client integration, especially in a context that requires authentication.
Contributions:258 commits, 12 PRs, 197 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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