Hendrik Van De Bruggen
UX Designer at Freelance
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHendrik Van De Bruggen is a UX Designer with 12 years focused on product design, user research, creative direction, and design leadership, and 17 years of professional experience overall. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he has led end-to-end design on dozens of projects as a freelancer and driven UX improvements at organizations from startups to enterprise teams including PayPal, Cisco, and PadMapper. He pairs a user-centered mindset with hands-on UI work and marketing collateral creation, championing design culture and usability across product and engineering teams. Unusually for a UX professional, he has deep backend and open-source experience—contributing parser and rendering fixes to well-known Mustache implementations and refactoring core pieces of Puppet—bringing a rare systems-level empathy to interface decisions. He excels at translating complex workflows into elegant, measurable user outcomes and building cross-functional buy-in to ship pragmatic solutions.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Portland State University
English, German
Github Skills (37)
puppeteer10
javascript10
docker10
mustache10
python10
component-design10
puppet10
testing10
template-engine10
dockers10
ruby10
code-generation10
go10
parsing10
text-parsing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sodabrew/puppet-dashboard
Mar 2011 - Jan 2012
The Puppet Dashboard is a web interface providing node classification and reporting features for Puppet, an open source system configuration management tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hendrik contributed to the Puppet Dashboard project by addressing both backend and frontend aspects. They resolved a dependency issue by providing a Mutex and explicitly including the 'thread' library in the configuration. Their work extended to the frontend, where they added and styled tabbed report sections using JavaScript and CSS, and fixed font rendering and browser compatibility issues. The user also performed refactoring of JavaScript code.
system-configurationweb-interfacereportingpuppetconfiguration-management
puppetlabs/puppet
Jan 2012 - Jul 2014
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:66 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hendrik primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Puppet codebase, specifically within the interface system. They removed the `#interface` method, as constants were already defined for each interface, streamlining the code. The user also refactored the interface storage and access mechanisms, opting for class-level data structures and access methods. Finally, the user renamed and updated the usage of the `--terminus` option.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
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