Summary
Bart 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