Sam Lindqvist

Curriculum vitae

Sam Lindqvist

Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Stockholm, Sweden

  • sam@example.com

  • github.com/samlindqvist

Summary

Frontend engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, fast web applications for travel, finance and culture. I lead teams through rebuilds without stopping the business, I like design systems and performance budgets, and I care about the details users notice.

Experience

  1. Senior Frontend Engineer · Northwind Travel

    2022 — Present

    Remote · Stockholm — Tech lead for the booking and itinerary teams (11 engineers).

    • Led the rebuild of the booking flow as server-rendered, progressively enhanced pages, raising conversion by 18% and cutting JavaScript by 64%.
    • Created and maintain Aurora, the design system now used by 6 product teams and 140+ screens.
    • Mentored 5 engineers through promotion to mid and senior levels; run the frontend guild.

  2. Frontend Engineer · Globex Finance

    2019 — 2022

    Stockholm — Customer-facing web banking for 400,000 monthly users.

    • Built the account dashboard and payments flows in React and TypeScript.
    • Brought the app to WCAG 2.1 AA and introduced automated accessibility checks in CI.
    • Reduced Largest Contentful Paint from 4.1s to 1.6s on mid-range Android phones.

  3. Web Developer · Studio Nord

    2017 — 2019

    Gothenburg — Agency work for retail, culture and public-sector clients.

    • Shipped 30+ marketing sites and campaigns, including the Gothenburg Museum of Art relaunch.
    • Introduced a component library that halved build time for new client sites.

  4. Junior Developer · Pixel & Co

    2016 — 2017

    Uppsala — First role after university.

    • Built WordPress themes and email templates; learned to love semantic HTML.