Bas Tuijnman
Owner at Gardener IT
Waddinxveen, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Tuijnman is a pragmatic technical lead and founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening TV and web applications across startups and international teams. He blends “software plumber” pragmatism with leadership, having driven TV app development and quality improvements at 24i and led engineering at MOBIAN.Global before founding Gardener IT. Known for improving reliability through rigorous testing — for example adding unit tests and fixing event-listener bugs in the BBC TV Application Layer — he focuses on shipping robust, maintainable systems. A multi-language enthusiast who enjoys mentoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he thrives on turning messy integration challenges into predictable delivery. Based in Waddinxveen, Netherlands, he pairs entrepreneurial experience from running agencies with a steady engineering craft that favors practical solutions over hype.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Information Engineering, Information Engineering at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
English
Stackoverflow
237reputation
131kreached
22answers
5questions
Github Skills (13)
iptv-application10
unit-testing10
javascript10
application10
test-automation10
event-handling9
html6
css6
asp-net6
cakephp6
php6
jquery6
magento6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/tal
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
TV Application Layer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Bas primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `TV Application Layer` project by adding unit tests and addressing related issues. They added failing unit tests to verify widget behavior, corrected a bug related to event listener binding, and subsequently added checks to prevent duplicate event listener registrations. Furthermore, the user contributed to the testing framework by adding multitap configuration and subsequently updated keyboard tests, demonstrating a commitment to thorough testing and code correctness within the project.
lgwebosjavascriptbroadcasttelevision
24i/jira-slack
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
slackslack-integrationjira
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