Floris De Bijl
Software Engineer at Feedbackfruits
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFloris De Bijl is a full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience who balances full-time development with part-time tech journalism and active open-source leadership. Based in Haarlem, he contributes to critical TypeScript infrastructure—improving sharp typings in the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repository—and helps shape standards as a Unicode Consortium member. At FeedbackFruits and as founder of OpenTitles he blends backend proficiency with product-minded engineering, shipping reliable developer tooling and integrations. His background in both journalism and ICT gives him a rare ability to translate complex technical detail into clear documentation and user-facing narratives.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Journalistiek (Journalism), Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Journalistiek (Journalism) at Fontys Hogeschool TilburgHAVO, HAVO at NSG GroenewoudBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ICT, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ICT at Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven
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Github Skills (14)
type-system10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typesc10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
html6
nodejs6
javascript6
es6-modules6
eslint6
ecmascript6
image6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Floris primarily contributed to the type definitions for the `sharp` image processing library, enhancing its TypeScript support within the `definitelytyped` repository. Their work involved updating existing typings to reflect the latest library versions, fixing reported issues, and incorporating new features such as affine transforms and sharpen options. The contributions demonstrate a focus on maintaining accurate and comprehensive type definitions, improving the developer experience when using `sharp` with TypeScript.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
fdebijl/EmojiBuilder
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Construct (or destruct) emoji from layered SVGs
Contributions:55 commits, 9 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 8 months
emojisvgjavascripttwemojidestruct
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