Zacharias Eryd Berlin

• Worked across multiple assignments for different clients, delivering high-impact solutions in dynamic environments. Contributed to the creation and development of a CV management platform used internally.

Overview: Led the front-end development for a project that previously used PHP for the entire frontend, introducing React to enhance the user experience and improve the platform’s scalability. Worked closely with the designer and CTO to shape the project’s vision and ensure it met user needs through a creative and practical approach.

Key Responsibilities:

• Introduced React to the project, creatively integrating it with PHP by maintaining PHP for the navigation while loading React components for each page, ensuring a seamless user experience across the platform.
• Took architectural lead on the frontend, designing a solution that allowed for the smooth integration of React into a pre-existing PHP project.
• Developed reusable components that could be used throughout the platform, focusing on modularity and scalability.
• Refactored tables into a new AG Grid-based component, improving the flexibility, functionality, and maintainability of data display.
• Worked closely with the designer and CTO to refine the user experience, helping them envision the best solutions before implementation.
• Took full UX responsibility, driving design decisions with a strong vision for user needs and ensuring a consistent and intuitive interface across the platform.
  

Technologies Used: React, Vite, AG Grid, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Git, Shell

Overview: Led the design and development of a ground-up CV management web app within a team of four, providing a user-friendly platform for managing and presenting CVs. The platform streamlined internal processes, improved employee efficiency, and enhanced the customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led the UI/UX design, focusing on ease of use and aesthetic appeal.
• Managed front-end development, translating designs into a fully functional application.
• Ensured cross-device and cross-browser compatibility, increasing user engagement.
• Applied object-oriented programming principles, improving maintainability and reducing future development time.
• Streamlined CV management: Transitioned from managing individual Word files to a centralized digital platform, reducing the time spent on managing CVs by approximately 80%. What previously took around 10 hours now only takes about 2 hours, significantly improving operational efficiency.
• Reduced consultants on the bench by 50%: The faster CV management system enabled quicker placements, cutting the number of consultants on the bench by half—from 20 to 10, improving overall resource utilization.
• Built a customer-facing platform: Created interface for customers to view CVs sent by managers or salespeople, reducing back-and-forth communication and speeding up the overall process.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to deliver a stable MVP that was aligned with user needs and launched ahead of schedule.
• Conducted thorough user research, identifying key pain points and opportunities for improvement.

Technologies Used: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, Git, GraphQl, Figma, Azure DevOps

Overview: Collaborated within an agile team to refine helpdesk processes and integrate them with the Salesforce unit. Focused on enhancing the user experience for customers encountering issues with physical products through a streamlined and user-friendly web interface.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managed the development of the helpdesk form, allowing users to easily report issues with physical products, improving issue resolution efficiency.
• Enhanced the form's interface on Axis's website, that has over 35000 daily visitors, ensuring a clean, intuitive design that simplified the user experience.
• Created a dynamic form with role-based access, using state handlers to customize the form based on the user’s account and access role, ensuring different handling for different types of users.
• Developed the entire user journey for unit returns, integrating ticket submissions into Salesforce for front-end handling, facilitating a smoother flow for returns.
• Worked closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration and accurate data handling between the front-end and Salesforce systems.
• Employed React with TypeScript to develop responsive, maintainable components, ensuring a fast, dynamic user experience.
• Tested and documented helpdesk components rigorously, ensuring robustness and reliability in all interactions.
• Maintained user-centric approach, ensuring solutions aligned with the needs of the customers while reflecting design principles from previous projects at Skatteverket.
  

Technologies Used: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Git, Salesforce

Overview: Worked in an agile, SAFe team to develop Skatteverket’s (Swedish tax agency) design system, focusing on creating and optimizing reusable UI components. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure a user-friendly, consistent experience across the services. With my implementations helped 22,800 daily visitors to get their help.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developed reusable UI components for Skatteverket’s services, ensuring scalability and optimization to prevent future issues and promote consistency.
• Built and implemented search component to facilitate smooth navigation through the design system, improving user access to components and resources.
• Collaborated closely with UX designers, ensuring all components met user-friendly design standards and adhered to best practices.
• Created tailored components for specific team needs, ensuring flexibility while maintaining consistency across the design system.
• Wrote extensive test cases and documentation, ensuring high-quality, reusable components that could be easily integrated across multiple projects.
  

Technologies Used: Storybook, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, Styled Components, Git, Lit.js, Figma

Overview: Played a key role in relaunching the website from scratch, implementing new designs and features using WordPress, PHP, and TypeScript. Collaborated closely with the UI designer to enhance UX and improve lead generation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Built the website from the ground up with a focus on performance, improving the Lighthouse SEO score from 60 to 99.
• Created user-friendly components for the marketing team, ensuring mobile-first design and cross-browser compatibility, including support for IE11.
• Contributed to a significant increase in leads, helping drive a 50% increase in conversions through improved SEO and user experience.
• Collaborated in an agile Kanban environment, adapting design priorities based on lead data to ensure a high-impact user experience.
• Developed a creative, reactive process for new feature creation, ensuring flexibility and speed in implementing new features.
  

Technologies Used: TypeScript, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, jQuery, Git, Svelte, Docker, Bash, Twig

Overview: Led the front-end development of a web application designed to streamline the bank lending process by eliminating intermediaries. Collaborated with a full-stack developer and the founder to create an efficient and user-friendly platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developed the front-end of the web application using React, taking full responsibility for the design and functionality of key components.
• Styled components using a functional approach, ensuring maintainability and responsiveness across devices.
• Ensured smooth communication between the React front-end and the Python-based backend, facilitating seamless data flow and operations.
• Collaborated with the full-stack developer to integrate the backend logic and features with the front-end user interface.
• Worked closely with the founder to align the web app’s features with business needs and user requirements.
  

Technologies Used: React, CSS, JavaScript, Sass, Python, MySQL, Git, Selenium, Docker

Overview: Developed an automated children’s book service that generated hand-drawn images based on user inputs, tailoring each story to create unique, personalized books. Took over the project from two previous developers and was fully responsible for code management and cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led the development of the automated book service entirely in React, ensuring a seamless user experience for creating personalized children's books.
• Took over the project, assuming full responsibility for code and cloud management, ensuring stability and scaling of the service.
• Hosted the application on Digital Ocean and scaled the service using Heroku, ensuring high availability and performance as the platform grew.
• Collaborated with the founder to create new features and pages, incorporating feedback from a test group to continuously improve the service.
• Developed tailored, hand-drawn images for each story, integrating custom artwork based on user-generated content to provide a unique experience.
  

Technologies Used: React, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Heroku, AWS, Contentful