Emile Nijssen
Founder & Creative Director
Netherlands
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Top SchoolEmile Nijssen is a founder and creative director with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing smart home products and web applications from the Netherlands. As founder of Athom (creator of Homey) and several hardware and software ventures, he blends product vision with hands-on front-end engineering and company-building. He contributes to notable open-source projects like wg-easy, improving its WireGuard admin UI and metrics, showing a pragmatic focus on usable tooling. His background in Creative Technology and long history of running a web agency means he moves smoothly between UX, embedded systems and developer-facing interfaces. Colleagues describe him as entrepreneurial and unafraid to tackle problems that turned out to be harder than expected.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Creative Technology, Bachelor's Degree Creative Technology at University of TwenteVWO Nature & Technology, VWO Nature & Technology at De Waerdenborch
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
apidoc9
api9
wireguard8
tailwindcss8
homey6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
wg-easy/wg-easy
May 2021 - Aug 2022
The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 130 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Emile primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WireGuard web-based admin UI. They modified `src/www/index.html` to update the UI, and made changes in `src/www/js/api.js` and `src/www/js/app.js`, indicating work on both the front-end and the API interaction. These changes include UI enhancements like edit functionality and adding charts. The user's contributions show a focus on enhancing the user interface and integrating new features within the application.
adminvpnweb-basedwireguardvirtual-network
athombv/me.nanoleaf
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Adds support for Nanoleaf Aurora devices
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
nanoleafaurorananoleaf-aurora
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