Erik Sombroek
Senior Frontend Developer at Poki
Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErik Sombroek is a Senior Frontend Developer with 11 years in the games industry, currently shaping user-facing products at Poki after rising through roles from Game Developer Relations to senior engineering. He brings a rare blend of product management and hands-on development experience, having previously managed publishing deals and growth strategies that helped titles reach hundreds of millions of installs. As an indie game creator he shipped hit Flash titles like Unreal Flash (180M+ plays) and Billy The Pilot (50M+), which informs his strong intuition for player-first UX and performance in web games. Based in Hoorn, Netherlands, he combines entrepreneurial training in economics and entrepreneurship with deep knowledge of casual and mobile game ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge developer partnerships, data-driven product decisions, and polished front-end implementations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
HBO, Economics, Entrepreneurship, HBO, Economics, Entrepreneurship at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (186)
threejs10
canvas2d10
webgpu10
box2d10
rendering-engine10
javascript-game-engine10
cpp10
game-development10
javascript10
build-configuration10
gltf10
game-engine10
rendering10
javascript-game10
glsl10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ErikSom/gamestats
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Javascript performance monitor / game stats library inspired by Unity's graphy
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
monitorjavascriptmonitor-performanceperformanceunity
Birch-san/box2d3-wasm
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Box2D v3 for the Web, using WASM + SIMD + Web Workers
Contributions:13 PRs, 123 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
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