Boris Arkenaar
Consultant Web Engineering Founder at appTOAD
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Arkenaar is a senior frontend engineer and founder with 11 years of experience delivering end-to-end web products for startups and scale-ups from Amsterdam. He repeatedly takes full ownership of frontend architecture and delivery—rewriting legacy systems into modern React apps for warehouse, customs and fleet operations while also building greenfield products and CI/CD pipelines. Equally comfortable mentoring teams and shipping hands-on code, he has led training programs, advised AngularJS migrations, and rescued projects under tight deadlines. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Leaflet.draw with UI-focused features like polygon distance tooltips and configurable metric units, showing attention to usability and stability. His background spans JavaScript, React, AngularJS and Clojure/ClojureScript, and he combines pragmatic engineering with a founder’s knack for client-facing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Open UniversiteitOpen Bachelor, Portugeuse Language and Culture, Open Bachelor, Portugeuse Language and Culture at Utrecht UniversityPropedeuse, Mediatechnologie, Propedeuse, Mediatechnologie at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Swedish
Github Skills (4)
leaflet10
javascript10
ui-design9
testing4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet.draw
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Vector drawing and editing plugin for Leaflet
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to the Leaflet Draw library by addressing issues and improving functionality. Their work included reverting a previous change, which indicates a focus on bug fixing and code stability. The user also incorporated changes like adding distance to a polygon's tooltip, which demonstrates an understanding of user interface elements and improvements. Furthermore, they implemented features such as configurable unit types for metric measurements, reflecting a proficiency in extending the library's core functionalities.
leafleteditingvectordrawing
boris-arkenaar/shiatsuhetgooi.nl
Apr 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:146 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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