Hi, my name is
Håkon Underbakke
I'm a Norwegian frontend developer currently doing contract work for my own company, Ryfylke React AS.
I have been doing front-end focused web development professionally for the last 7 years. These days, I mostly work with React and Typescript.
Koding.no
2023-nowAn open source initiative for self-learning coding
RTK Query Loader
2022-nowA package that lets you create reusable and extendable loaders for your React components.
Telenor (project)
2021-nowWorking as a front-end consultant on a project related to log analysis and correlation of data.
Ryfylke React AS
2021-nowFounded company. Working as an independent front-end consultant.
Haystack (POC)
2020A proof-of-concept data-visualisation and anti-fraud software
NDLA (game)
2020Developed a game for the NDLA platform
Equinor projects
2020Worked on two projects for Equinor through Idean.
City for City
2020An internal project at Idean.
Idean / Frog (Capgemini)
2020-2021Worked as a front-end consultant. Took part in multiple projects.
LIGL AS
2016-2020Worked as a Legal Tech & Web Developer. Work related to contract automation. Start-up company.
I am the most comfortable when...
Working from home, in teams, along designers, using collaborative tools and task management services such as Jira or Azure Devops. Fine-tuning accessible and creative user experiences using React and Typescript.
I am an expert in...
All the front-end fundamentals such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, as well as React, Typescript, and modern CSS solutions such as SCSS and CSS-in-JS (styled-components).
I have comprehensive experience with...
Designs systems and UI-libraries, such as...
Javascript frameworks and tools, such as...
CSS technologies and concepts, such as...
Other web development concepts, such as...
My journey
I started building websites back around 2010, when I was just 13 years old. Over the course of my formal education, I built many personal projects - as well as a few websites for local businesses.
In 2016, after 2 years in electronic education, and one year in IT, I started working as the only IT consultant in a start-up legal/law-tech company (LIGL AS).
At LIGL, I worked on automating the process of writing legal documents through ContractExpress Author - as well as creating a web UI for external customers to use.
After working at LIGL for 4 years, I started working as a front-end consultant at Frog (previously Idean, part of Capgemini). At Idean/Frog, I was able to work at a couple of projects at Equinor, one of them related to their design system, EDS, as well as a project at NDLA (the norwegian digital learning area) - where I developed a educational game/simulation, and one internal project called City for City. Lastly, I worked on a project/POC relating to graph visualization and data correlation, called Haystack.
In 2021, I started my own company - Ryfylke React AS. I had a contract set up with Telenor from day 1, working on another data-correlation and log analysis project. Since then I've been working full-time on this project.
At Telenor, I have mostly been working on developing new features, fixing bugs, refactoring and maintaining the codebase. In addition to my work on the front-end, I have also been very engaged in increasing the user experience and accessibility of the application - pushing for reevaluating core design decisions, and making changes where necessary - both on the UI and code level.
Besides the Telenor project, I have also been working on my company's digital presence, the open source initiative; Koding.no, other open source projects like RTK Query Loader, as well as the IRL gaming company Newbringer.