Per Harald Borgen

I'm a founder, front-end developer, and educator.

I enjoy building digital products that either solve problems or entertain people. I've helped build apps for kids, SaaS apps, and an edTech platform for learning how to code.

I'm self-driven, hard-working and easy-going. I also hold a bachelor's degree in economics.

Experience:

Co-founder of Scrimba (2016-today)

We're building the next-generation online school for learning how to code. We combine a highly interactive learning experience with the best online instructors.

Front-end developer at Xeneta (2015-2016)

I worked at a front-end developer for an Oslo-based startup called Xeneta. They provide pricing analytics for the sea freight industry. I worked on the customer-facing app, and mainly with React.js.

Founders & Coders (2015)

In early 2015 I enrolled as a student at Founders & Coders in London. F&C is a 3 month intensive coding course with a focus on Javascript and Node JS. After graduation, I've worked with commercial clients, mostly building MVP's for startups.

Co-foundera at Propell (2012 - 2014)

After finishing my studies I founded a kids app company named Propell, which I ran for 2.5 years as the CEO. Propell's childrens books, educational material and music apps have been downloaded over 1 million times by parents around the world. My responsibilities included product development, management, marketing, accounting and everything else related to running a startup. Check out our Disco Fingers app here.

Mikrojobb (2011)

While studying, I founded a Norwegian site to buy and sell micro services. Mikrojobb quickly grew to be the most popular of its kind in Norway and was acquired by NeedBox.com in 2013.

Projects I've coded:

Keyword King

A simple webapp that instantly shows you your app's underperforming keywords on the App Store.
Github repo.

Rate My Stuff

A service for people to create user profiles, upload images and recieve ratings from other users.
Github repo.

Squish

A service for students to help them remember and repeat their notes.
Github repo.

Stupid Machine

A machine learning tutorial on image recognicion with Scikit Learn.

Technical skills:

Languages:

• Javascript
• Python
• Imba

Front-end:

• HTML
• CSS & Sass
• Jade
• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• React JS
• D3.js

Back-end:

• MongoDB
• Node JS
• Hapi
• Django
• REST APIs

Machine Learning / Data Science:

• Scikit Learn
• Numpy
• Pandas
• Matplotlib

Testing:

• Mocha
• Qunit

Other:

Other than coding, I enjoy writing about coding. I also like cross country skiing and I sing in a mens choir.