Freelance Full-Stack Code Monkey | MVP creator | Critical thinker
At a young age I've developed a deep love for binary operators, small machines, tinkering with appliances and then, the holy grail; the almighty computer. From there on out my education was without a doubt and straight forward: the technical side of high school followed by Computer Sciences at college.
After a couple of I.T. related jobs, my internship began at 'Click internet concepts'. Although I've made the rookie mistake of staying to long at a single place, I've learned a lot there. It's a full stack agency and they also work as a consultancy, so I've seen a lot of companies from the inside and out. From giants like KPN to small bureaus with only 5 employees.
Later on I moved from Rotterdam to Amsterdam to follow a girl...Let's not go too deep here... Then started working at an energy comparison company for a while and then decided to do my own thing and never looked back.
The diversity of the problems you get thrown to your feet, when you need to do everything from A to Z, are just as magnificent as they are annoying. One thing is for certain you learn a lot!
And non I.T. related, I really love doing things with my wife to be and 2 kids. Boating through the canals, going away on weekends, attending meetups and of course the famous FriMiBo's are things I really love to do.
Media backbone for media outlets
01-11-2019-29-10-2021MyChannels is a devision within DPG Media group that is responsible for all digital content on all digital outlets of DPG. Ad.nl, Volkskrant.nl, Hln.be, Trouw.nl, Parool.nl and so on. The team is compact, senior and knowledgeable. We are responsible for more than 5 million video plays each day. Creating services to supply the media outlets with video's, games and entertainment. Providing the mobile api for the Apps of the papers. And so on.
More about DPG, click here More about MyChannels, click here
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Chemical e-trading system
01-04-2019-31-10-2019Through DEPT im helping DigiB, thats the digital devision of Brenntag a worldwide chemical wholesale company to realize an ecommerce platform. The platform is built in React with Typescript, a NodeJs middelware that handles all api communuctation.
More about DigiB, click here
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Client portal for pensions
01-03-2019-31-03-2019Vivat is the mother company of Zwitserleven, Vivat has an "My" environment where clients can log in and see information about there products. My team was responsible for the Pension funnel.
More about zwitserleven here
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Parcel return software
01-02-2019-28-02-2019Re:turnista is an app where clients of webshops can return items they bought. Using a mobile first app, the user is guided through a couple of questions and the package is ready for pickup.
The actual app is available here
Backend ecommerce system
28-05-2018-31-01-2019Ace & Tate sells glasses online and offline, they have "currently" over 30 stores world wide and they use an e-commerce platform (Solidus) to process all orders. Since the company continues to change, the backend also needs to be quite versitile.
More info about Ace & Tate here
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Admin interface including API for gasoline loyalty program
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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Cybersecurity awareness app
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.
My role in this project:
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!
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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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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React - LibVips - OpenVc - DeepZoom
02-06-2017-13-09-2017Van Ons is a really cool WP design agency based in Amsterdam. For some projects, they contract out for special features and this was quite special. They wanted to create a web interface were clients can cut out a portion of a really big image (30 by 30 meters at 76 dpi approx 46GB per image). So I've developed a React frontend where the users can walk through the image using DeepZoom. And cut out a shape and then sending the coordinates to a worker server, cutting out the piece and mailing it to a carpet printer. Pretty heavy stuff.
Everything was new, everything was exciting, it was an awesome project. The final version is visible here at Skonne
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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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Onboarding software for large company's
01-05-2015-01-02-2016Leaplines is a SaaS that helps companies with their on-boarding process. Providing a curriculum based on the employee's role within the company, with a clear hierarchical method of stimulating the users through there managers.
We made use of the following: Rails, PostgresSQL, CircleCI, Github, Rspec with Capybara ( TDD ), jQuery, React, Rails UJS
My role in this project:
Android processapp, Rails backend
15-10-2015-Present dateHoryon innovaties B.V. is asbestos removal company. Asbestos has a bad reputation and that's why there is a lot of legislation. They are required to have all data on premise at all time. This is just not possible on paper, so we have created a Rails backend with an Restful api connecting an Cordova Android app. The app started out as a simple hour measuring platform, but now it has over 18 main functions and one of them is drawing on a photographed map.
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iOS, cordova and react development
01-07-2012-01-04-2015Coming back to click felt really good. They had so much faith in me that they wanted to set up a new office in Amsterdam with the main focus on Mobile. We had some really great clients. We have build an app for KPN where users can view the last goals in a soccer league. Build an app for a recruitment agency and many more.
Symphony - Php - Less
01-08-2011-01-07-2012This is the first time i got in contact with a proper framework. Symphony. It's mature, it has a rich plugin ecosystem, its consistent. I liked it allot. Learned a lot here, the main issue was that i was the only dev in the company so i got a bit bored and moved on. Great experience though.
Perl - CaretCMS - Scripting - Discovering
01-12-2008-01-08-2011My internship at Click.nl was great, a young team, cool founders, nice environment and Dirk the dog. I've learned so much here, multiple languages, dynamics in the company's themselves. Learned about budgets, stakeholders, planning etc. It was a great experience.
Owner
01-01-2006-Present dateWhile I was still in school I often helped my dad out with IT stuff, so he encouraged me to start a business so that I can send him an invoice. This started out as a hobby, but since 2015 I've been freelancing full time. And its great. I'm really glad that I made the leap from the security of employment to the world of freelancing.
2019 Elixir for programmers
Learning elixir from Pragmatic Dave, what more can you say. Totally focussed and ready to digg in deep.
2018 Course public speaking
Public speaking is an art by itself, im always amazed by speakers who can take over a whole room. Thats why i took this course, im more confident, know how to get peoples attention and have a better understanding on how to organise a talk. Demo-days, stand ups and board presentations have improved significantly
2004 - 2010 Bsc, ICT
My bachelor information tech was a real eye opener. The more you learn about IT the more you recognise you don't know anything at all. The bachelor was a bit light for my taste, so i've decided to finish the bachelor while working. The extra hands on knowledge acquired at the office with the textbook information proved to be a real good combination.
1999 - 2004 Havo, Natuur en Techniek