Chris Van Der Ploeg
Senior Frontend Developer at CrowdStrike
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolChris Van Der Ploeg is a Senior Frontend Developer with 13 years of experience crafting polished UI and developer experience solutions, currently building frontends at CrowdStrike. He brings deep Ember expertise and a history leading UI engineering at Synopsys, where he specialized in tooling, CI, design systems, accessibility, and internationalization for enterprise SPA and SaaS products. Chris combines hands-on frontend craftsmanship (HTML5, CSS, PostCSS, modern JS) with developer tooling—Node CLIs, GitLab CI, and frontend build/package automation—to streamline workflows and ship reliable interfaces. Known for improving developer experience as much as user interfaces, he thrives at the intersection of developer tooling and production UX. Based in the Greater Calgary area, he blends systems thinking with practical delivery across startups and large enterprises.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied, Computer Information Systems and Business, Bachelor of Applied, Computer Information Systems and Business at Mount Royal College, Calgary
Github Skills (153)
maven-plugin10
ember-cli10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
ember10
maven10
javascript10
session-management10
gulp10
command-line-utility10
package10
npm-install10
npm10
ember-addon10
gulp-plugin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisvdp/ember-launch-darkly
Mar 2020 - Apr 2023
A modern Ember addon to wrap the Launch Darkly service
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
ember-addonwrapdarklyaddonember
chrisvdp/Resume
Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:14 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 issue in 6 years 1 month
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