Summary
Huib Van Geertruy is a pragmatic frontend developer and architect with 12 years of experience building scalable component libraries, design systems and user-focused web applications across Dutch public and commercial sectors. He specializes in TypeScript, HTML and (S)CSS and has led design-system initiatives and core component libraries at companies like bol.com, R&R and Logius, driving consistency, visual testing and performance improvements. Huib combines hands-on engineering with people leadership—having served as Product Owner, team manager and works council member—to align teams and stakeholders around long-term frontend strategy. He has deep experience with React/Next/StencilJS/Angular, micro-frontends and design-token synchronization, and often focuses on practical architecture changes that improve maintainability at scale. Based in Houten, he currently contributes to national projects like MijnOverheid and continues to push teams slightly beyond the expected to deliver robust, user-centric products.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor, Industrial and Product Design at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
English, German, French, Dutch