Andreas Åkerlöf

Frontend Developer

Andreas

Hi, my name is Andreas and I'm a passionate frontend developer.

After some years working as an operator in the pharmaceutical industry, I got bored and needed a change. I had the need to do something more creative and fun, wich after some thinking led me on to web development. Therefore I started to study frontend development at Nackademin (Vocational Education).

My interest in web development started back when i was a teenager, and since then I've been trying a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. I've been doing everything from HTML, CSS to JavaScript and PHP. During the years I've also tried some other programming languages, for example mIRC-scripting, Visual Basic and C#.

In my free time, when I'm not building stuff for the web, there's a lot of time spent on music, I listen, and I go to lots of gigs and visit festivals. Apart from that I love traveling, crafting and video games.

Skills

HTML5

My experience with HTML started as far back as the late nineties. It was back in those days I started to experiment with my own web pages.

CSS3

My experience with CSS started around the same time as i started with HTML, in the late nineties.

SASS

I have experience in writing CSS with the help of the preprocessor SASS. It's a tool I use in a lot of my own projects.

JavaScript

My JavaScript skills is pretty good. I'm always learning new stuff and I'm getting better and better on a daily basis.

jQuery

I've been using jQuery in some of my projects and have a pretty good understanding of it.

React

I've used React with Gatsby to build this site and I've used it in multiple other projects. Together with Gatsby it's probably one of my strongest skills right now.

Gatsby

This site is built with Gatsby. I built it with Gatsby to both learn the Gatsby framework and to learn more React. I've built some other projects using Gatsby too, and it's probably one of my strongest skills right now.

Jekyll

I have some experience in using the framework Jekyll.

PHP

I did a lot of coding with PHP for about 10-15 years ago. Nowdays not that much, but I use it from time to time.

MySQL

I have experience in using MySQL and similar databses.

Adobe Photoshop

I've been using Adobe Photoshop for over twenty years, so I would call my self pretty experienced with it.

Adobe Illustrator

I know how to handle Adobe Illustrator and create basic stuff.

Adobe XD

In some of my projects I've been using Adobe XD to make mockups.

Gimp

Since I'm a bit geeky and I've been using Linux as my primary operating system from time to time, I have experience in using this Photoshop equivalent.

Git

I'm using git on a daily basis.

GitHub

I have experience in using GitHub.

GitLab

I have experience in using GitLab.

Svelte

I have experience in Svelte.

Firebase

I've used Firebase with Firestore and Authentication.

Wordpress

I have some experience in using wordpress. I prefer using it as a headless CMS.

Projects

Brewdog Beer Collector

A project I made with two classmates in the course JavaScript 4 at Nackademin. The mission was to try out a framework, we built the app using Svelte. It uses an API provided by Brewdog.

Guns N' Roses

A project that I made with two classmates in the course JavaScript 3 at Nackademin. The mission was to create a band or a game page using Jekyll as framework.

MAD-Journal

Examining project in the course CMS, Backend och Databases at Nackademin. We were suppose to create a single page journal with JavaScript that was connected to an API that we built with the framework Slim. PHP and MySQL. I did this project with two classmates.

Gitarrkungen

Examining project in the course JavaScript 2 at Nackademin. We were supposed to create a webshop with at least 10 products that you should be able to add to a cart and then "order". The project uses Bootstrap, jQuery och Web Storage API. I did this project together with a classmate.

Värdeökning

Project that i made during the course Frontend Projects at Nackademin. The mission was to create a web app for the fictive company Bostadskollen. The app calculates estimated value increase on a residence for the upcoming 5 years. It's limited to three areas and the calculations should not be trusted, cause they don't resemble real life.

LIA-tracker

This app i put together to keep track of internships I've applied for. And at the same time practice some JavaScripting. There's no database involved and it's built using Web Storage API. It's possible to import and export the list as CSV to be able to use the app in other browsers or places.