Aldwin Vlasblom
Freelance Software Developer at Alt Shift Win
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAldwin Vlasblom is a freelance software developer based in Rotterdam with 14 years of experience building and architecting web applications, primarily focused on back-end systems. He brings deep expertise in functional programming—particularly combinatory logic and algebraic data types—and has spent years adapting functional paradigms to JavaScript and mentoring peers on their adoption. His work spans full-stack delivery, with notable contributions to codebase structure and front-end architecture despite a backend lean. Aldwin is an active open-source contributor, having improved core functionality and performance in the Fluture monadic alternative to Promises. As a former development manager and technical lead, he pairs hands-on engineering with architectural guidance and developer workflow improvements. He often surfaces non-obvious design benefits of FP in pragmatic production systems, helping teams trade short-term convenience for long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Technical Profile, High School Diploma, Technical Profile at Rudolf Steiner College RotterdamInternational Course of Digital Media Design, Graphic Design, International Course of Digital Media Design, Graphic Design at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (17)
asynchronous10
javascript10
async10
es6-promise10
testing10
jscript10
functional-programming10
jquery9
apidoc9
api9
package-manager6
mongodb6
sanctuary6
nodejs6
php6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fluture-js/Fluture
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
🦋 Fantasy Land compliant (monadic) alternative to Promises
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 19 reviews, 1104 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aldwin contributed to the development of the Fluture JavaScript library, specifically improving core functionality. Their work included fixing issues related to the isFuture detection, adding new features such as `Future.reject`, adding unit tests for testing and release, and optimizing performance improvements such as massively improving performance of Future#fork and improvements in the constructor. Furthermore, the user expanded the codebase by including new features such as `Future.done`, `Future.extractLeft`, and `Future.extractRight`.
butterflyfunctional-programmingfluturemonadicasync
Avaq/fp-ts-fetch
Dec 2023 - Nov 2024
Fetch wrapper for fp-ts users
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 1 PR in 10 months
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