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Kevin Olsson

I am Front-end developer who is passionate about UX Design. I love building user interfaces. Everything here is more or less what exists on my LinkedIn profile. Born in Manila 🇵🇭, now sitting in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Experience

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Svenska Handelsbanken AB

Front-end developer
Stockholm, Sweden
August 2021 - present
  • Maintaining Handelsbanken's design system, called Handelsbanken Design System (HDS).
  • Crafting and documenting UI components with a heavy focus on accessibility.
  • Developing new features for Handelsbanken's web app using TypeScript.
  • A bunch of other cool stuff. I'm learning new things day by day! 💯🙌🏻
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Påmind AB

Front-end developer
Stockholm, Sweden
May 2019 - August 2021
  • Developed Påmind's front-end web apps using React, Redux, and Redux Saga.
  • Wrote tests using Jest and Enzyme
  • Designed, documented, and maintained Påmind's design system which was built on top of Material UI.
  • Crafted UI components using Storybook.js
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ComeOn! Stockholm AB

UX Designer & Front-end developer
Stockholm, Sweden
March 2017 - May 2019
  • Designed and developed prototypes through either code (HTML, Sass, JS) or design tools (Proto.io, Principle, Sketch).
  • Assigned as the key product owner of ComeOn’s promotions platform which involved: collaborating with brand teams to determine requirements, creating roadmaps to cover short and long term plans for platform, developing new while maintaining legacy promotions, coordinating with external agencies to get work done for said platform, and introducing new workflows which eventually led to leading a now dedicated in-house team for said platform.
  • Worked extensively with Wordpress and Advanced Custom Fields for developing the back-end of ComeOn's online promotions platform.
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Kirigami Design Company

Lead Designer & Co-founder
Manila, Philippines
August 2015 - March 2017
  • Co-founded Kirigami to introduce world class designs and product development to the Filipino Community.
  • Built and maintained strong local and international client relationships.
  • Interpreted and negotiated requirements with stakeholders.
  • Oversaw the entire design process (which included but was not limited to: research, wireframe, prototype, and high-fidelity design.) Developed interface portions of projects. Communicated and presented progress to stakeholders and managed their expectations towards projects.
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Pandora Security Labs

Designer & Developer Intern
Ortigas, Philippines
March 2014 – June 2014
  • Designed and developed websites using either Magento or Wordpress as a CMS.
  • Supported management in daily operating tasks.

Skills and Interests

Technical:
React
Redux
TypeScript
JavaScript (ES6)
Webpack
Storybook.js
MaterialUI
HTML
Jest
Enzyme
i18n
CSS
Sass
JSS
Design Systems
Next.js
Git
Netlify CMS
SQL
Agile Methodology
JIRA
PHP
WordPress
Advanced Custom Fields
Design:
User Interface (UI)
User Experience (UX)
Sketch
Design Systems
Abstract
Proto.io
Marvel
inVision
Zeplin
Figma
UX Research
Typography
Language:
(Spoken natively)
English
Swedish
Tagalog
Interests:
Programming
Designing
Building things
Eating
Cooking
Baking
Travelling
Meeting new people
Playing video games
F1 Motosport
Esports
Climbing

Education

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De La Salle University

Manila, Philippines

BS Computer Science. Majored in Network Engineering 2015

Awards: Most outstanding thesis: A Tor-based distributed VPN network system (Potator)