Davy Kager
Product Manager at Dedicon
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDavy Kager is a Product Manager with 12 years of experience focused on making digital information accessible to people with visual impairments at Dedicon in the Netherlands. Combining a BSc in Informatica and an ongoing MSc in Management, he blends technical understanding with product strategy to evolve assistive digital services. He contributes as a back-end developer and accessibility specialist to the renowned liblouis open-source braille translator, improving translation opcodes and braille indicators—work that reflects deep domain expertise beyond typical product duties. Pragmatic and user-centered, he translates complex accessibility needs into concrete product improvements that broaden information access for people with reading disabilities.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc), Management, Master of Science (MSc), Management at Open Universiteit
Dutch, English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
braille10
c1110
back-end-development9
accessibility9
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
architectures6
architecture6
command-line5
cross-platform5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liblouis/liblouis
May 2015 - Oct 2018
Open-source braille translator and back-translator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Back-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:4 reviews, 299 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Davy primarily focused on improving the braille translation and back-translation features of the liblouis library. Their contributions included adding new opcodes, fixing emphasis handling, and refactoring various functions within the code. They made changes to enhance accessibility by correcting braille indicators.
blindbrailletranslationcross-platformaccessibility
dkager/tolk
Jan 2014 - Jul 2019
Screen reader abstraction library.
Contributions:152 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 years 6 months
screen-readerabstractionabstraction-libraryreader
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