Gijs Weterings
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGijs Weterings is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable products at Meta from London while completing a Master's in Software Technology at TU Delft. He has a long history of shipping web applications since 2009 and has worked across frontend and mobile, contributing notable fixes and features to high-profile open source projects like React Native and the Metro bundler. At Meta he combines UI engineering experience with backend and tooling work—his contributions to Metro include Hermes coverage options, improved symbolication, and VPN-less remote cache support. Previously he supported students and project teams at TU Delft, emphasizing software architecture, agile practices and quality-driven delivery. Comfortable across the stack, he brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience and maintainability informed by years of production and open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
react-native10
bundler10
mobile-development9
android9
ios9
cross-platform8
app-framework8
mobile8
react8
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/metro
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
🚇 The JavaScript bundler for React Native
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Gijs primarily contributed to the `metro` bundler for React Native by implementing new features and improving existing functionalities. These contributions include adding options for Hermes coverage and debugging stack traces, enhancing the symbolication process. The user also worked on the codebase by allowing SourceURL parameters for debug builds and refactoring to better support separate configurations for reads and writes, and enabling VPNLess support for the remote manifold cache.
reactbundlerreact-nativejavascriptflowtype
facebook/react-native
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 60 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Gijs primarily contributed to the React Native framework, focusing on bug fixes and code refactoring. Their work included addressing issues in the Android and iOS components, such as fixing view configurations, passing test IDs, and refactoring existing code. They also performed changes like removing deprecated features and updating project dependencies.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
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