About
I'm Ricard Fredin, a software developer based in Bollnäs, Sweden. I've been working with computers for about 30 years — the last 15 of them professionally, mostly on the frontend, with enough backend, tooling, and infrastructure along the way to understand the full picture.
Currently a Senior Frontend Engineer at Alva Labs in Stockholm, where I work on feature development and improving how the team ships software.
Timeline
- 1995
- First computer. DOS, then Windows 95.
- 1998
- First Linux install. Spent a weekend compiling a kernel from source.
- 2002
- Swedish Armed Forces — Military Service, CV90 IFV Systems Technician.
- 2003
- Swedish Armed Forces — Deployed to Kosovo with KFOR/NATO, serving as mechanic and soldier.
- 2007
- CIO at a small healthcare company — hardware, infrastructure, and website.
- 2008
- Moved to Stockholm.
Translating games and websites from English to Swedish, mostly for Gameforge. - 2010
- Web development school at KYH, Stockholm.
- 2011
- First professional programming job. PHP, MySQL, Linux.
- 2012
- Frontend consultant at Daresay. Clients included Ericsson and Clear Channel.
- 2013
- Married. First kid.
- 2014
- Technical consultant at Valtech. Worked with Expressen, Chanel, and others. Built and shipped news products using lean principles and React Native.
- 2015
- Second kid. Moved to Norrtälje.
- 2017
- Third kid.
Lead Frontend at Lägenhetsbyte. Migrated a legacy ASP.NET app to React and moved infrastructure to AWS. - 2018
- Moved back to Stockholm.
- 2019
- Lead Frontend at Collegial. Migrated a NodeBB-based product to a standalone React app with GraphQL and Apollo.
- 2020
- Fourth kid.
- 2021
- Frontend consultant at Garrison. Delivered Åhlens' new React storefront.
- 2022
- Fifth kid.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Alva Labs, Stockholm. - 2024
- Moved to Bollnäs.
For a detailed professional breakdown, see my resume.
Get in Touch
You can find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, and Bluesky. Feel free to reach out at ricard.fredin@gmail.com.