Hans Gerwitz
Head Of Design at QuillBot
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHans Gerwitz is a design and product leader with 17 years of experience blending psychology, software engineering, and strategic design to create meaningful digital products for startups and global enterprises. Having led design at Canonical and Philips and now heading design at QuillBot, he specializes in design systems, experience design, and translating open source and data-driven initiatives into usable products. He started his career in application development and technology leadership, founded a boutique studio, and has repeatedly scaled teams and practices across large organizations. An active contributor to open-source documentation—improving usability and consistency in projects like Middleman's site docs—he brings a pragmatic developer’s eye to design problems. Based in Amsterdam with a BA in Psychology and Computer Science (summa cum laude), he combines human-centered insight with technical rigor to align product purpose with measurable outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology and Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, BA, Psychology and Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at Saint Louis University
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Github Skills (14)
html10
front-end-development10
middleman10
documentation10
erb10
css9
markdown6
javascript6
eleventy6
nunjucks6
scroll6
jquery6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
middleman/middlemanapp.com
Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
Documentation for Middleman
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily focused on improving the presentation of documentation within the Middleman documentation repository. Their work involved modifying the display of site titles and URLs, including sorting and formatting. They refined how site information is presented by changing sorting methods and removing the 'www' prefix. Finally, the user implemented a case-insensitive sorting method to maintain consistency in how data is being displayed.
middlemanrubyglossary
TheArtificial/rails-wiki
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 51 pushes in 11 months
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