I am Axel Björnfot, a frontend developer with nearly four years of experience delivering web applications in complex e-commerce environments. I specialize in React and TypeScript, focusing on scalable frontend architecture and efficient data handling in API-driven systems. I’ve helped adapt shared component libraries to evolving design systems and often take ownership from requirements to deployment, collaborating closely with backend teams and occasionally serving as the sole frontend engineer on a project.

Axel Björnfot

I am Axel Björnfot, a frontend developer with nearly four years of experience delivering web applications in complex e-commerce environments. I specialize in React and TypeScript, focusing on scalable frontend architecture and efficient data handling in API-driven systems. I’ve helped adapt shared component libraries to evolving design systems and often take ownership from requirements to deployment, collaborating closely with backend teams and occasionally serving as the sole frontend engineer on a project.

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I am Axel Björnfot, a frontend developer with nearly four years of experience delivering web applications in complex e-commerce environments. I specialize in React and TypeScript, focusing on scalable frontend architecture and efficient data handling in API-driven systems.

I’ve helped adapt shared component libraries to evolving design systems and often take ownership from requirements to deployment, collaborating closely with backend teams and occasionally serving as the sole frontend engineer on a project.

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Language

Swedish
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English
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Work Experience

Frontend Consultant at Columbus Global
January 1, 2022 - February 1, 2026
Delivered API-driven frontend solutions across enterprise e-commerce projects, often as the sole frontend engineer alongside backend teams. Implemented React/TypeScript applications within Optimizely and Litium ecosystems, led refactoring to improve performance and maintainability, optimized complex API interactions and large rendering flows, built features from scratch, updated shared component libraries to align with updated design systems, and contributed to CI/CD workflows using Git and Azure DevOps.
Frontend Developer at Appsari
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Contributed to ProgressMe, an Android application for patients and families. Implemented real-time chat functionality in ViviCare using WebSockets; developed UI interactions and animations in collaboration with UX designers; worked with psychologists and backend developers to translate domain requirements into user-facing functionality; built frontend features using Angular and TypeScript, integrating with .NET-based backend systems.
Production Technician at Volvo Cars
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019
Contributed to production planning and workflow optimization in a high-precision manufacturing environment, focusing on process efficiency and quality standards.

Education

Frontend Developer Program at Mediainstitutet
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Certified Production Technician at YH Lernia
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
SharePoint Development at EC Helsingborg
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011
Frontend Developer Program at Mediainstitutet
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Certified Production Technician at YH Lernia
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
SharePoint Development at EC Helsingborg
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services, Manufacturing

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