Summary
Gerwin Van Royen is a frontend developer with 11 years of professional web experience, currently building single-page and progressive web apps at PocketSmith in New Zealand. He combines a background in graphic design with deep front-end architecture expertise, having led core front-end systems and authored an application framework (flourjs) used in past products. Gerwin is comfortable across the stack—bringing solid back-end and build-tooling experience (Node, Gulp) to deliver cohesive, product-focused interfaces. His career includes co-founding a web agency where he designed UX/UI and backend architectures, showing a strong product and entrepreneurial sensibility. He favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions and keeps pace with evolving web technologies like WebRTC and real-time sockets.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Graphic design, Graphic Design, Diploma Graphic design, Graphic Design at Natcoll