Emma Nielsen

Six-month internship on the checkout team of a Danish e-commerce platform, working in React and TypeScript.

• Built the address-autocomplete component now used on every checkout page, cutting address-entry errors by 12% in the team’s A/B test.
• Raised checkout-package test coverage from 61% to 84% by adding component and integration tests.
• Fixed 15 accessibility issues found in an external audit, including focus traps and missing form labels.
• Shipped 40+ reviewed pull requests, all deployed to production.

Maintained and extended the student union’s event and club-management website, ten hours a week alongside studies.

• Rebuilt the event-signup flow, halving drop-off between the event page and completed signup.
• Migrated the site from jQuery templates to a small React app with a documented component set.
• Introduced automated deploys, replacing a manual FTP process that had caused two outages.

A progressive web app that merges university timetables, room changes, and deadlines into one offline-capable view.

• Grew to 1,100 weekly active users through word of mouth in student groups.
• Offline-first architecture with background sync; Lighthouse scores of 100/100/100/100.
• Open-sourced; three classmates have contributed merged pull requests.

A small tool that generates a component-specific WCAG checklist (forms, modals, tables) for pull-request descriptions.

• Adopted by the checkout team at her internship as part of the PR template.
• 350 GitHub stars after being featured in a frontend newsletter.