Bram Jetten
CTO at PlanGo rijschoolsoftware
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBram Jetten is a pragmatic CTO and Ruby on Rails specialist with 15 years of experience building SaaS and e‑commerce platforms from the Netherlands. He founded and leads PlanGo, an all‑in‑one driving school SaaS, and maintains Spina Shop, a Rails CMS used for large e‑commerce sites, combining product sensibility with hands‑on backend engineering. Deeply involved in Rails internals and localization, he has contributed robustness fixes to the widely used globalize library and driven CMS features around content and i18n. Bram blends design awareness with commercial instincts—he builds developer-friendly systems that solve real business workflows for both small instructors and larger organizations.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BICT, Communication & Multimedia Design, BICT, Communication & Multimedia Design at HAN University of Applied SciencesVWO, VWO at Raayland College
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Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
content-management-system10
cms10
i18n-node10
rails10
ruby10
localization10
i18n-js10
activerecord10
i18next10
ruby-on-rails10
cm10
testing9
web-development9
database8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SpinaCMS/Spina
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
Spina CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 314 reviews, 657 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily worked on the Spina CMS, contributing features related to content management and localization. Their commits demonstrate tasks such as removing dependencies, bumping versions, translating user interface elements, and adding functionalities related to page content structures. These changes involved modifying core controllers, models, and view templates within the Rails framework.
cmsrailsspina-cmsrubyspina-gem
globalize/globalize
May 2017 - May 2017
Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Bram primarily contributed to the `globalize/globalize` library, focusing on improving the library's robustness and adapting it to different Rails versions. Their work involved addressing potential database connection issues by rescuing `ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError` and providing informative warnings. They also implemented a patch for the uniqueness validator in Rails 5.1, updating the code to handle serialized hashes and removing unused attributes.
railstranslationrubyactiverecord-modelstandard-library
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