Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

• After teaching my colleagues and building projects for clients for about 15 years, I decided it was time to try something different. With Frontend.fyi it is my goal to teach people the real craft in frontend by making the best frontend content out there.

Sep 2022 – Jul 2023 · 10 mos

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• I'm currently working as a principal frontend engineer at DEPT®. I am responsible for, among other things:
• Laying the technical foundation in products in a way that enables less experienced engineers to take over;
• Research and implement new technologies in order to advance the frontend department;
• Advice clients and projects on the technical direction to take;
• Educate and enable other frontend engineers;
• Find and advice on the right balance between quality and time / effort;
• Interview new engineers and help grow the department;
• Post stupid GIFs and make sure everyone has a great time.
• Technologies used: React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jest, Cypress, Figma, ChakraUI, Framer Motion, Graphql, Remix, NodeJS, NestJS, Azure Devops, AWS, and way more..

Jun 2021 – Jan 2022 · 7 mos · Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

• I joined Xebia as a freelance frontend engineer, helping them in building a serious gaming platform, converting their current 'analog' games into digital version. We've setup a platform that can be reused for multiple different games.
• Technologies used: React, TypeScript, Jest, ChakraUI, Framer Motion, Gitlab (pipelines).

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Den Haag, South Holland, Netherlands

• During the peak of the Covid pandemic I joined the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport on their endeavour to provide as much information around the pandemic as possible.
• We've build multiple greenfield JAM-stack websites (SSG rendered with Next) focused on informing the Dutch citizen about travel regulations, travel restrictions, and quarantine compliancy. Finally we've also build a registration platform for any citizens traveling to the Netherlands, providing the citizens with a certificate which would be validated at the border.
• reizentijdenscorona.rijksoverheid.nl, quarantainecheck.rijksoverheid.nl and quarantaineverklaring.rijksoverheid.nl.
• Technologies used: React, TypeScript, NextJS, ChakraUI, Figma.

Oct 2020 – Jun 2021 · 8 mos · Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands

• During the Covid pandemic I joined the Dutch Police in creating internal dashboarding. These dashboards helped the Dutch government in keeping track on all statistics around the pandemic — ranging from available hospital beds to fines.
• The goal of the dashboard was creating a platform that could be used for any future crisis. Currently the tool is being used to help Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands in finding a place to stay as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Technologies used: React, TypeScript, NextJS, D3 (via VISX), Styled Components, Jest, Figma.

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos · Utrecht Area, Netherlands

• Working with the Rabobank Data4Food program creating web applications for visualizing data for farmers.
• Technologies used: React, TypeScript, Jest, Styled Components, Figma.

May 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Maastricht Area, Netherlands

• As the lead frontend engineer my main responsibilties were creating solid foundations for both the new My Vodafone and My Ziggo environments and guiding the three teams in their daily work.
• My responsibilities were:
• Joining the different teams in their development work;
• Supporting, coaching and teaching the engineers, doing code reviews, pair programming, etc;
• Consulting Vodafone in their digital roadmap. Part of that is creating plans to improve the other legacy modules as well. And start implementing these plans;
• Creating more bridges (especially technical, coding standards, techniques used, etc) between the differently located Vodafone and Ziggo digital teams. Making sure there is one vision / direction for the digital department.

Jul 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Amsterdam en omgeving, Nederland

• In my day to day work at TamTam/Dept I worked as a senior frontend engineer creating anything ranging from single page apps to smaller sexy campaign websites and everything in between.
• Besides the engineering work, I worked hard on improving the overall frontend level of the company, bringing in new standards, coaching the engineers and maintain the frontend setup we used in most of our projects.

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Maastricht Area, Netherlands

• As an external specialist I joined the internal Vodafone Digital team to help build, maintain and improve their own website, with a big focus on the My Vodafone environment.

Oct 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Breda

• At E-sites I've worked as a frontend engineer in one of the three project teams. My daily task was converting great designs to perfectly functioning websites by combining the latest innovations in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• At e-sites I also was scrummaster for my team.

Feb 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Sep 2010 – Feb 2011 · 5 mos