Benjamin Boer
Head Of Product at Framer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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RockstarBenjamin Boer is a product leader and hands-on front-end engineer with 11 years at Framer, currently leading product as Head of Product from Amsterdam. He blends design sensibility with code, having progressed from Product Designer to Product Team Lead and now steering product strategy and execution. Benjamin contributes to notable open-source projects around motion and Framer itself, improving gesture interactions and UI components like sliders and text layers. He’s known for shipping practical, test-driven UI fixes that bridge designer intent and developer implementation, and for modernizing examples to make advanced animation and font behavior more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
coffeescript10
animation10
react10
testing10
typescript-types9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
koenbok/Framer
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Framer - Design Everything
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 187 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Framer repository by modifying the user interface components and testing frameworks. Their work includes fixing slider calculations within the SliderComponent and formatting code. They also made significant changes to the TextLayer component, including default font implementations and various tests for inferred properties. The changes included code modifications and adjustments in the testing suite, focusing on fonts.
everythingreactcssdesignframer
motiondivision/motion
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
A modern animation library for React and JavaScript
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the motion animation library. Their contributions involve updating and refining gesture-based functionalities, particularly tap, pan, and hover interactions. They updated existing code examples, ensuring consistency and correct usage of gesture-related properties within the library's framework. The changes also incorporate more modern example formats.
reactanimationproduction-readyreactjsgesture
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