Gerjan Van Geest
Frontend Developer at ING
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGerjan Van Geest is a Frontend Developer with nine years at ING, currently shaping the global Design System that powers ING applications worldwide. He maintains and supports roughly 60 reusable components across an open-source base (lion) and an internal styled tier, recently driving Dark Mode rollout and European Accessibility Act readiness. His contributions to the high-impact ing-bank/lion repo include UI fixes, validation improvements and accessibility enhancements that benefit many consumers beyond ING. Trained as an Industrial Design Engineer (TU Delft), he blends design sensibility with pragmatic front-end engineering to produce polished, usable components. Based in Utrecht, he brings a steady track record of incremental improvements and hands-on stewardship of a critical cross-organization library. Notably, his work balances open-source collaboration with enterprise-grade theming and policy compliance.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
VWO (high school), 'Nature & science, VWO (high school), 'Nature & science at Andreas CollegeTU Delft
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
accessibility10
uid10
javascript10
web-components10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ing-bank/lion
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Fundamental white label web component features for your design system.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:447 reviews, 236 commits, 468 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gerjan primarily focused on fixing and improving UI components within the `lion` web component library. Their contributions involved removing unused validators, fixing a date validation issue, and ensuring correct formatting and behavior of input components. Furthermore, they implemented fixes to enhance the accessibility of elements.
white-labelreactweb-componentsjavascriptlion
gerjanvangeest/open-wc
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Open Web Components provides a set of defaults, recommendations and tools to help facilitate your Web Component.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
web-componentswebcomponentsweb-componentrecommendationsdefaults
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