Rijk Van Zanten
CTO Co-Founder at Parsons School of Design - The New School
New York, New York, United States
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RockstarRijk Van Zanten is a CTO and co-founder with ten years of experience building and scaling open-source headless CMS platforms from New York. As Lead Maintainer of Directus he blends full‑stack engineering with product and developer-experience work—ranging from API and extensions integration to VuePress documentation and front-end display refinements. He pairs hands-on engineering leadership with teaching roles at Parsons and past academic appointments, translating complex systems into maintainable, teachable projects. Notably, Rijk often works behind the scenes moving and refactoring code across repositories and fixing event-level bugs and docs configuration to smooth contributor onboarding and modularity.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
api-doc10
javascript10
documentations10
javascripts10
api10
vue-js10
vue-jsx10
documentation10
cms9
rest-api9
wrapper8
wrappers8
vuepress27
vuepress7
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
directus/v8-archive
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Directus Database API — Wraps Custom SQL Databases with a REST/GraphQL API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 5 reviews, 556 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rijk primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the Directus API project. They established the VuePress configuration, including navigation and repository links, to prepare for the API documentation. Furthermore, they moved code from an extensions repository into the API project and made various modifications to the codebase, including event name fixes and adding the "no-wrap" class to specific display components.
cmsdatabase-apivuevuejsdirectus
directus/app
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Directus Admin Application — An Intuitive WebApp for Managing Database Content
Contributions:51 releases, 1223 PRs, 4928 pushes in 2 years 9 months
managing-databaseadmindirectusintuitivedatabase
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