This is obviously still a work in progress.....
So i’m a freelance web enthusiast. Why such a vague job definition? Well that's because my activities are quite diverse. Sometimes i’m a interim-CTO building a great product and an even nicer team and sometimes i'm correcting some small bug somewhere.
My knowledge is quite broad, i've studied computer sciences, worked at multiple companies and tasted a lot of corporate cultures.
Ive founded my company, or went to the Chamber of Commerce about 10 years ago. I was doing some freelance work next to my regular employment and needed to invoice clients. Not to long ago in 2015 ive decided to make the switch to full time freelancing. To be honest the best decision in my life. The whole chain of building something for someone is so exciting and challenging that boredom is something of the past.
Things where i'm really good at are: creating business applications, Single Page Applications, Ruby on Rails apps, React apps, couplings between systems you name it!
What i’d really love to do is creating some React Native mobile apps. So far i've just created demo projects to learn the language. But a real assignment with a stakeholder would be great.
So i'm Rene born in ‘86 the time where computers started to get accessible to the public. the time of the Apple Mackintosh the time of the Atari and the Commodore 64. It was a great time to grow to love computers. Back in the day everything was so big you could actually understand what it did by looking at it. A great basis to work with.
So, as you might have noticed i like computers, and they like me (except for windows computers…. we have some strong differences in opinions). I love boats, cars, beers, cafe’s, festivals, techno and off course Amsterdam.
In my spare time i'd love to do some stuff with my family, i've got a beautiful viance Thecla a daughter Lotte (‘13) and a son Boris (‘17). Going on the boat in the summer,
Rails api | ActiveAdmin backend | Automated exports
22-01-2018-27-04-2018Tankey is a loyalty platform (LP) created by Essent for there other brand EnergieDirect. The fist version of the LP is built within Essent. Meaning that linking other company's proved to be difficult, thats why they have split up Tankey from essent and builind a new and better version of the app.
More info about Tankey here
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React - Webpack - Jekyll
16-10-2017-17-11-2017With the BotSquad bot, you can create bots for the web, mobile and chat interfaces like facebook, slack, twitter etc. There is a beautiful studio where you can create bots using a friendly and semantic DSL. And preview the bot in real time.
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Veiligzondermoeite.nl - an app to create awareness for cybersecurity
04-12-2017-25-01-2018Veiligzondermoeite started out as a experiment from ABN Amro to help their cybersecurity office create awareness with clients of ABN Amro. There are alot of cybersecurity treats that are just not preventable with a technical solution like a firewall or password resets. Human engineering is currently quite hot. Just imagine, some hacker hacked the CEO’s email account, then the CEO goes on a well deserved vacation, and then the hacks sends an email to the chief of finance to pay 10K to some IBAN account. This is a case that you can prevent with awareness and that’s why The main ingredient was tasked by ABN Amro to create this app.
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Obviously im not the sole force behing this amazing little app, from The Main Ingredient we had a great programmer, really eager to learn and ive learned allot from him. They also have a great designer, i was really impressed with the speed and accuracy that he can execute an idea or feeling into assets. Then TMI itself, it was great working with these guys, they really know how to manage Agile projects and it was fun!
Rails - Roos API - Heroku
11-10-2017-08-11-2017HalloRoos is a contract alarm platform where users can set alarms for contracts that will expire in the future so that they can switch providers on time. HalloRoos was looking to extend their functionality and needed a developer to help them reach their goals. The subject itself is somewhat sensitive, but it comes down to a pretty selection then order flow with allot of validations and constraints. Each step is communicated to an API provided to store and manage the data.
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CTO - Rails - AWS - CI - rSpec
03-04-2016-15-09-2017Revolve Music is a SAAS platform where users (Artists mostly) can create a website, a digital presence in just a few minutes. Connecting to filled content providers like SoundCloud, BandsInTown, LinkedIn, Twitter etc your site is filled with content and you are ready to go.
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