Freek Post is a tech lead based in Eindhoven with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications and leading engineering efforts at ASML. He combines a strong PHP/MySQL/Apache backend foundation with practical front-end skills in JavaScript, CSS and (x)HTML, having moved from frontend engineer to tech lead within ASML. Freek contributes to notable open-source projects—improving image processing in gumlet/php-image-resize and enhancing the Trumbowyg WYSIWYG editor—showing fluency across both back- and front-end concerns. His work emphasizes pragmatic tooling and developer ergonomics, from image handling APIs to editor usability features like upload validation and rich text controls. Comfortable in both startup-style web teams and large engineering organizations, he brings steady delivery, testing and documentation improvements to projects. He studied web development and information technology locally, and often surfaces practical, under-the-hood fixes that improve long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Avans Hogeschool Breda
Webdevelopment, Webdevelopment at De Eindhovense School
PHP library to resize, scale and crop images. Cloud solution available at:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Freek primarily focused on enhancing the `gumlet/php-image-resize` library. Their contributions included implementing support for image loading and saving using string-based data, expanding the library's flexibility. They also added a method to resize images to best fit a given set of dimensions while keeping the original aspect ratio. Furthermore, they made improvements to testing and documentation.
A lightweight and amazing WYSIWYG JavaScript editor under 10kB
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Freek primarily contributed to enhancing the Trumbowyg WYSIWYG editor's functionality and user experience. Their work included adding attributes for file uploads, validating image file types, and implementing a template plugin for inserting pre-defined content blocks. Furthermore, they integrated font family, font size, and line-height controls, expanding the editor's customization options. These changes suggest a focus on improving the editor's usability and feature set.
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