Adam Bergman | Developer

• Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
• Phone: +4673-339 72 30
• E-mail: adam@fransvilhelm.com
• GitHub: @adambrgmn

Summary

• Previous radio- and magazine journalist turned self-taught fullstack JavaScript developer, after 20 years of coding as a hobby.
• Interested in, and has experience of, accessibility, design systems and the "back of the front end" part of front-end development.
• Value great developer experience and love improving it.
• Open source contributor.

Skills

Languages

• JavaScript (preferably TypeScript) – node, browser and edge runtimes
• HTML – with strong focus on semantics
• CSS – plain and modern
• PHP – simple and reliable

Tools

• Rendering with React (vanilla, NextJS, Remix et.al.).
• Data fetching with GraphQL (apollo) and REST (react-query).
• Testing with Jest and Cypress.
• Styling with vanilla CSS, CSS-in-JS (styled-components, emotion) and Tailwind.
• Backend with node on AWS Lambda and edge functions.

Design tools

• Figma
• Adobe suite

Learning

• Rust
• Svelte

Work experience

2019-09-05 - Present

Front-end developer | Velory

Front-end developer at Velory starting as Maker II. Currently Maker III+.

• Currently co-leading a large migration of an application from Ruby on Rails to React.
• Responsible for migrating all front-end projects into a monorepo.
• Lead many projects, e.g. developing design systems for forms and data tables.

2014-09-01 - 2019-09-04

Journalist & fullstack developer | Sjöfartstidningen

Mainly hired as a reporter for Swedish shipping magazine Sjöfartstidningen. Ended up taking responsibility for rewriting the whole WordPress backed site in order to improve performance and accessibility and ease development of future features.

• Took initiative and responsibility of rewriting most of the WordPress backend for www.sjofartstidningen.se.
• Wrote both quick news articles and longer form stories for printed magazine and web.

2013-06-01 - 2014-01-31

Journalist | Sveriges Radio P4 Väst

Radio journalist at Swedish public radio. Both as a reporter on the field and as host in the studio.

Education

2011-09-01 - 2013-05-31

Journalism | Ljungskile folkhögskola