Bart Riemens
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorBart Riemens is a Senior Full Stack Engineer and founder with roughly 15–25 years of hands-on experience delivering customer-facing front-end products and resilient back-end systems for enterprises and startups. He blends pragmatic engineering with business insight—bridging product requirements and technical implementation to ship simple, durable and easy-to-change solutions on time. As founder of Crafity and a long-term freelance contributor at companies like eBay, CarNext, Brenntag and EA, he has led migrations to headless architectures, built serverless sync platforms on AWS, and modernized legacy stacks. He’s an active front-end contributor (notably improving Foundation Sites’ validation system) and prefers tools like GNU/Linux, VIM and TypeScript/React while advocating for maintainability over tooling fads. Known for mentoring teams, creating visual workflow specs for complex integrations, and incremental migration strategies, he thrives on solving real-world business problems rather than chasing technical novelty. Based in Haarlem, he balances deep technical rigor with a practical, collaborative mindset and a taste for mechanical keyboards, photography and rowing.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
foundation-sites10
front-end-development10
foundation10
html9
responsive-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Bart primarily focused on the "Foundation Abide" validation system within the Foundation Sites framework. Their commits addressed multiple issues in the validation process, including fixing duplicate triggers and incorrect validation logic. They enhanced the functionality by adding features to ignore certain fields and exclude hidden input fields from validation. Their work reflects a deep understanding of the framework's validation system, including modifying the core JavaScript code and adding new attributes for flexibility.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
briemens/gruvbox
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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