Bram Stein
Chief Technology Officer at The Type Founders
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBram Stein is a CTO and senior cloud architect with 16+ years building large-scale web services and cloud-native systems, currently leading technology at The Type Founders. He previously ran Adobe’s webfonts team, operating a cloud font service serving billions of requests per day, and has deep experience from founding a consultancy to directing remote engineering teams. Bram blends full-stack engineering with product influence—taking ideas from concept to shipped product—and is happiest in roles where architecture and product meet. An active open-source maintainer, he created and improved widely used front-end projects such as fontfaceobserver and contributed to Treesaver and WebFontLoader, demonstrating attention to UI rendering, typography, and cross-browser robustness. He’s also an author and international speaker, with a track record of translating typographic research into practical tooling used by thousands of companies.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Media technology, Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Media technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
javascript10
typesetting10
webfonts10
templating10
testing10
webkit9
handlebars9
mustache8
callback6
font-face6
webfontloader6
google-webfonts6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bramstein/fontfaceobserver
Jan 2015 - Jun 2022
Webfont loading. Simple, small, and efficient.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 38 PRs, 122 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily addressed issues related to the user interface of the `fontfaceobserver` library, focusing on font loading and display. Their work involved modifying the `src/ruler.js` file, which handles font measurement, and the main library files to fix rendering issues. They also updated the distribution builds, addressing both the core functionality and ensuring proper operation within the browser. Furthermore, a bug was fixed in how a long loading font could pass the timeout.
font-loadingweb-fontswebfontsfont-sizewoff2
typekit/webfontloader
Dec 2012 - May 2017
Web Font Loader gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:203 commits, 66 PRs, 109 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bram contributed to the project by fixing tests related to the Web Font Loader. They addressed issues in font watching and test cases, which includes fixing last resort font handling for webkit. Further contributions include adding missing semicolons and a test for the insertNullFontStyle function. They also made general test improvements and merged master.
google-fontsfont-sizefontvariable-fontsfonts
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