Simen Brekken
Manager, Tech Lead & Frontend Architecture At Sopra Steria
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSimen Brekken is a seasoned frontend architect and engineering manager based in Oslo with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 25-year history in the tech industry. He currently leads frontend architecture and teams at Sopra Steria, pairing pragmatic technical direction with people-first leadership to bridge engineering and product outcomes. His background spans founding a digital product studio, scaling streaming platforms at NRK for millions of monthly users, and driving React micro-frontend migrations, design systems, and test automation at Tripletex and Ardoq. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer experience in projects like Storybook’s Vite builder and built WebSocket-backed multiplayer infrastructure in experimental repos, showing comfort across both frontend polish and backend realtime systems. Known for contagious enthusiasm, curiosity, and a light-hearted diplomatic style, he mentors teams to simplify complexity and deliver resilient, accessible user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ullern VGS
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (25)
socket-io10
javascript10
storybook10
vite10
websocket10
socket10
nodejs10
react10
socket-io-client10
ajax9
mdx9
sourcemaps7
http7
graphql6
dependency-injection6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danielmahal/Rumpetroll
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
Rumpetroll is a massive-multiplayer experiment. It's purpose was to try out new open web technologies like WebSockets and Canvas.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Simen primarily focused on developing the backend infrastructure for a WebSocket-based multiplayer experiment. Their contributions include building a Node.js server with WebSocket functionalities and a test client. Code changes reveal the implementation of WebSocket connection management, including handling handshakes and message processing. They also integrated Socket.IO for real-time communication, developing both a server and client-side component.
websocketssocket-iotechnologiescanvasjavascript
storybookjs/builder-vite
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
A builder plugin to run and build Storybooks with Vite
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Simen primarily focused on enhancing the Storybook builder for Vite. Their contributions include adding a source-loader plugin to improve code visibility and debugging, refactoring the MDX plugin for better performance, and implementing a working React example. Additionally, the user made modifications to ensure the correct loading order of configuration files. Their work centers around improving the developer experience and functionality of Storybook with Vite.
vitejsbuilderviteplugin-buildertypescript
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