Jacques Erasmus
Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques Erasmus is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in the Netherlands with over nine years in software, currently building and maintaining high-quality, performant features at GitLab. He’s known for improving legacy codebases, raising engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers to increase team autonomy. An active open-source maintainer and technical interviewer, Jacques focuses on UI/UX polish—fixing tooltip positioning, navigation, and layout issues—to improve real-world usability in widely used projects like GitLab CE. He approaches problems with a beginner’s mindset and a knack for pragmatic solutions that balance maintainability and scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Certificate, Matric Certificate at Stellenberg High SchoolSoftware Development, Computer Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Software Engineering at Prestige Academy
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
vue10
vue-jsx10
gitlab9
html9
css8
ruby-on-rails5
rails5
ruby-rails5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacques primarily contributed to the front-end development of the GitLab project. Their commits focused on fixing UI issues, improving component layouts, and enhancing user interactions within the GitLab interface. They addressed problems with overlapping elements, tooltip positioning, and broken navigation, and updated components related to environments, merge requests, and deployments. The changes indicate a focus on improving the usability and visual presentation of the GitLab platform.
gitlab-cerubygitlabrails
j-erasmus/large-repo
May 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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