Bryan Haakman
Software Engineer at TopicTrails
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBryan Haakman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and distributed sync systems from Amsterdam. He has shipped production features and infrastructure at companies like Toggl and Source.ag, co-founded an ontology-based knowledge startup (TopicTrails), and contributed core fixes and examples to the popular Slate rich-text editor—improving selection handling, undo/redo semantics, and drag-and-drop for void nodes. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he has implemented sync APIs in Go, browser extensions, and data pipelines for NGOs and fleet telemetry. Bryan combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking, often surfacing subtle edge-case fixes in open source that improve real-world editor reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT System & Network Engineering Informatica, Bachelor of ICT System & Network Engineering Informatica at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
editors10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
app-framework10
editor10
slate10
web-framework10
react10
nextjs9
redux9
browser9
version-control9
typescripts8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 23 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the core functionality and examples of the rich text editor framework. Their work involved fixing bugs related to selection handling (pointForward, pointBackward), image schema, and drag-and-drop interactions, specifically focusing on void nodes and fragment serialization. The user also introduced a versions example, demonstrating version control within the editor, and made several improvements to operation serialization and inversion for the undo/redo functionality. Finally, they upgraded the next.js dependency to version 12.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
bryanph/full-auth-middleware
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Full authentication middleware for express, easy to integrate
Contributions:74 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
expressjsauthenticationexpressnodejsauthentication-middleware
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