I'm a passion driven software architect who specialized in frontend technologies. As a Google Developer Expert since 2016 (specializing in Angular) I have helped many organizations and teams to make their applications faster, and easier to maintain. My broad experience in many fields helps to spot problems and anti-patterns early on. While keeping a keen eye on performance I can help simplify entire stacks, leading to optimal results for the project, the end-users and the stake-holders.

Angular Performance Engineer, FedEx, 2023-2025

As a performance engineer I helped the teams at FedEx to make their applications faster, and easier to maintain. This involved creating a signal driver rule engine, helping to power forms. Migrating apps to the latest Angular version, and restructuring code-bases to make them more maintainable.

Senior Frontend Architect, Pandora Intelligence, 2021-2022

Created and implemented new architecture to make future expansion and maintenance streamlined. This involved creating a fully reactive data-layer that aids easy creating of fully realtime views of all available endpoint.

Senior Principal Engineer, HeroDevs, 2019 - 2023

As a hero at HeroDevs, I worked with large projects and focus on teaching client teams and delivering software. I split my time between mentoring teams and finishing story points in the sprint. My short term goals revolve around furthering my speaking career and traveling around the globe.

Senior Angular frontend developer, Asamco jan-2018 - feb-2019

Updated the internal tooling to latest Angular, educated RXjs.

Founder and owner, E.S.O, frontend developer, trainer, international speaker, full stack solution builder

Prinsenbeek, 1986 - ongoing
I started this company at age 16(made it official at age 18), The primary goal was to get the public involved in computing, and programming.

Accomplishments

Successfully introduced computing and programming to the public

30+ succesfull years of selling hardware, software and custom build solutions.

Introduced dozens of new technologies to customers

Early adoption of building network based computing

Developing Internet bases solution from 1992

Introduced internet to the public

6000+ satisfied customers.

Internship, 1986

In this 6 month Internship my assignment was building car fleet management system, using cobol on a Philips mini-computer. After this was finished, it was successfully brought to market.

Various manual labor jobs

Prinsenbeek, and surroundings, 1979-1986
At age 11 I started to do manual labor jobs, so I could afford to buy new computers and extensions.

Google Developer Expert Angular and Web-Technologies, 2016 - ongoing

The Google Developers Expert (GDE) is a program from the Google Developer Relations team that recognizes and rewards outstanding developers. The current list of GDE is available on the Google Developers website

Dutch Angular group, 2012 - ongoing

The Dutch Angular User Group is aimed at all professionals from The Netherlands who want to talk everything Angular and AngularJS. Our mission is to make the Dutch community "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and enable its members to share their ideas and visions, inspire each other and collaborate in the making of awesome things.
I co-started this group, because this was a missing part in the dutch developers community.

Xbase++ eXchange Platform, 2000-2011

As a general board member of this community I helped spreading knowledge about xBase++, by organizing meetups and conferences.

Dutch Water Board, ~1996

I was a member of the general government board for 1 period (4 year)

AOC(ontslagadviescommissie), 1996-2006

Seated in this committee I helped judging cases of forced resignation.

MKB nederland regioraad West-Brabant, 1992-2000

General board member

OVP, 1988- 2004

Genec ral board member in this local business association.

RCC, 1982 - 1994

The Roosendaalse Computer Club, a association of people with a broad interest in building both hard ans software. In this period I held diverse positions. Chief buyer, and primary Magazine editor where among those.

A excerpt of the custom software projects created

Scully A tool-set that can turn a Angular application into a static site.

Validointi A library for Angular to make form validation easier. Leading to more reusable and maintainable code.

Observable life-cycle hooks. Creates an OSS tool that makes it easier to use RX observables in combination with Angular's component life-cycle hooks

Observable forms, I created an alternative way to do forms in Angular. This takes advantage of what the platform has to offer.

Telfon, a customer relation management tool, Including full administration

CAS, a financial reporting tool for a franchise, also including a invoicing tool (web-app)

WRM, Waiting room management. patients self-register, and practitioners can see and manage the waiting list (web-app)

Time management system to keep track of working hours. (web-app)

Web based interface for specialized barcode reader

Front end for hairdresser appointments system. (web-app)

Languages & frameworks

Angular ^{started 2011}

HTML ^{started 1992}

Typescript ^{started 2014}

JavaScript ^{started 1995}

CSS 2/3 ^{started 1996}

NodeJS / Deno / Bun ^{started 2010}

Hapi ^{started 2015}

Express ^{started 2015}

SQL ^{started 1990}

python

...

Databases

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

MySQL

DB I-IV

Firebase

AWS DynamoDB

Custom-builds

MS-SQL server

BerklyDB

CouchDB

Neo4j

RethinkDB

...

Operating Systems

Linux

Windows

Android

DOS

CP/M

...

Tools & utils

Git

NPM

VS-Code

Subversion

Angular-CLI

cmd

WLS

zsh

Jira

SonarQube

Jest

Jasmine

Protractor

Prettier

...

Mavo

Christoffel 1986-(finished)

MTS

Albertus-Magnus 1987-(aborted)

HBO

AMBI-T2,I1,I2,B1 1988-(finished)