Simon Bengtsson
Developer at Camphouse
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarSimon Bengtsson is a developer based in Malmö with 13 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile experiences, particularly in TypeScript and React. He balances frontend focus with backend curiosity, and has contributed to notable open-source tooling by modernizing the build process and dependency management of the popular jsPDF library. Comfortable in full-stack refactors, he brings practical engineering discipline—introducing rollup-based builds, strict mode, and Babel transpilation—to legacy projects. His background in interaction design and software engineering informs thoughtful, user-centered interfaces, and he thrives on continuously learning new tools and frameworks. Outside of code he draws energy from travel and cultural exploration, which often inspires fresh perspectives in his work.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
7,841reputation
1.4mreached
169answers
29questions
javascript
top-5%
pdf
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
npm10
jscript10
rollupjs10
build-automation10
nodejs10
babel69
pdf9
babel-core9
babeljs9
fest8
parse-server6
html6
swift6
angular6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
parallax/jsPDF
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 60 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Simon refactored the build process of the jspdf library, transitioning from Makefiles to npm scripts and then to a node-based build system using rollupjs. They replaced git submodules with npm dependencies, simplifying the project's dependency management. The user implemented a new release script and enabled strict mode for the entire library. Finally, the commits included the transpilation of javascript using babel.
pdfreact-pdfclient-sidejavascriptpdf-generation
simonbengtsson/jsPDF-AutoTable
Sep 2014 - Nov 2022
jsPDF plugin for generating PDF tables with javascript
Contributions:72 releases, 11 reviews, 963 commits in 8 years 4 months
pdfjspdf-pluginjavascriptpdftablesjspdf
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