Jan Hoogstad
Founder at Snowday
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Hoogstad is a founder, ecosystem architect, and coder with 12 years of experience building communities, products, and open learning platforms that reimagine how people share knowledge. He combines a PhD in Philosophy with hands-on engineering—contributing ClojureScript front-end integrations—and a history of founding and scaling mission-driven ventures like Offcourse, Superconnectors, and Rizom. Jan designs events and systems that turn social capital into tangible outcomes (e.g., the Superconnectors format that matches startups’ critical asks to high-value introductions) while embedding values such as transparency and inclusivity into technical and organizational design. He has worked across academia and startups in Europe, the US and now Taiwan, blending research-driven thinking with product and community execution. Unusually, his practice pairs philosophical rigor with practical tooling: he builds technical infrastructures that deliberately prioritize learning and shared-purpose coordination over credentials and IP.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Philosopy, PhD, Philosopy at Utrecht UniversityPhilosophy, Parts of my PhD and MA Studies, Philosophy, Parts of my PhD and MA Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Dev Bootcamp
English, German, Dutch, French, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
react10
clojurescript10
javascript10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cljsjs/packages
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
DEPRECATED: Javascript libraries packaged up with Google Closure externs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan focused on adding and modifying JavaScript libraries for use with ClojureScript. The commits included adding external definitions (externs) for libraries like Google Platform for authentication and React-XMasonry. Additionally, the user made updates to the externs for Recharts and added apollo-fetch, demonstrating an understanding of integrating external JavaScript libraries into a ClojureScript project.
javascriptclojarsclojurescriptexternsjavascript-libraries
OffCourse/offcourse-next
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Repository for open source contribution to the Offcourse platform. Open to Javascript developers of all levels!
Contributions:10 releases, 315 commits, 100 PRs in 10 months
javascriptopen-platformlearning-javadevelopers-sitecontribution-guide
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