Bas Kamer
Senior Developer Team Lead at Pursuit
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Kamer is a senior developer and team lead with 15+ years of experience blending interaction design roots with pragmatic full-stack engineering to deliver user-focused, high-performance systems. He founded Bushbaby Multimedia and multiple product ventures, evolving from PHP and Flash to a modern stack centered on EmberJS, NestJS and event-driven architectures like Event Sourcing and CQRS. Bas has led end-to-end projects tying web frontends to complex production workflows—most notably an integrated CAD/CAM and 3D-printing pipeline for orthopedic insole manufacturing—and builds robust IoT and remote device management tooling. He contributes to notable open-source projects in both backend (Zend Framework) and frontend (ember-bootstrap), improving maintainability, accessibility and developer ergonomics. Comfortable with infrastructure concerns (RabbitMQ, Redis, WebSockets, HLS) and DevOps, he prioritizes sustainable, scalable architecture and secure deployments. Colleagues describe him as a creative problem-solver who treats each project as a puzzle, combining art-school design sensibilities with disciplined software craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ing, Interaction Design, ing, Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Master (MA), Interactive Multi Media, Master (MA), Interactive Multi Media at University of PortsmouthGrafisch expert, Grafisch expert at Grafisch Lyceum Amsterdam
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
javascript10
bootstrap10
zend-framework10
php10
code-generation10
service-manager10
ember10
html10
bootstra10
testing9
css9
configuration-management9
http9
authentication8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ember-bootstrap/ember-bootstrap
Nov 2016 - Aug 2020
Ember-cli addon for using Bootstrap as native Ember components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 76 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Bas contributed to the `ember-bootstrap/ember-bootstrap` repository by implementing features and fixing bugs related to Ember components. Their work includes adding support for the `title` attribute in buttons and the `readonly` attribute in form elements. Additionally, the user added tests and made changes to existing components to ensure correct behavior and accessibility, specifically in the navbar and collapse components.
ember-cliember-addonember-componentsemberaddon
zendframework/zend-code
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bas primarily contributed to the Zend Framework's code generation component. Their work involved introducing new methods for removing properties, constants, and trait usages, along with related unit tests. They made multiple code style changes, improved doc blocks and also corrected some issues and added return types to improve the maintainability and quality of the code. Additionally, they reverted a previous change related to deprecation.
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