Ferdi Emmen
E-Business Technical Lead at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Netherlands
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Top SchoolFerdi Emmen is an E-Business Technical Lead and frontend engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications across aviation and finance, currently leading e-business initiatives at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He progressed from hands-on frontend roles to technical leadership, blending deep UI craftsmanship with practical experience in third-party integrations and ad-tech, as evidenced by contributions to the popular plyr video player (ads/Google IMA integration). Comfortable in agency and in-house contexts, he has repeatedly partnered with large enterprises like Rabobank and KLM via CODEZILLA and run his own web studio, giving him product-minded ownership and client-facing instincts. Based in the Netherlands, Ferdi brings a designer-developer background that helps him balance visual polish with robust, maintainable front-end code.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, MBO at Dudok College
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
285reputation
137kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
css7
pseudo-elements6
nodejs6
typescript6
youtube6
vimeo6
angular6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sampotts/plyr
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Ferdi primarily contributed to the implementation and fixing of the ads integration for the Plyr video player. The commits focus on loading the Google IMA SDK, fixing issues related to ads playback, and ensuring correct functionality when ads are blocked. These changes involved modifications to CSS, Javascript code, and the overall integration of ad functionality into the video player's behavior and display.
html5-audiohtml5-videovimeo-playerjavascriptyoutube
ferdiemmen/plyr-ads
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 releases, 114 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
rollspluginvideo-playervideoplyr
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