Jaro Vanderheijden
Developer at DPG Media IT
Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJaro Vanderheijden is a pragmatic full‑stack developer with 11 years of experience, currently building cloud‑native, serverless applications at DPG Media IT from his base in Aalst, Belgium. While his specialty is frontend and web UI, he pairs that with backend Node.js, DevOps, security and architectural skills—evidenced by an AWS DevOps Professional certification and leading the Advertising Framework that underpins major ad migrations. He thrives in autonomous squads that emphasize peer feedback and continuous improvement, and has shipped editorial and advertising tooling used by journalists and product teams. An active contributor to open-source game tooling, he has improved text rendering and game object handling in the popular Phaser.js framework—demonstrating attention to UI detail even in niche domains. Colleagues know him as a developer who balances hands‑on implementation with pragmatic system design and cost‑aware cloud practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmushogeschool BrusselAtheneum Halle
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
phaser10
javascript10
game-development9
canvas9
html9
typescripts8
typescript8
webgl8
game-dev8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phaserjs/phaser
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jaro primarily contributed to the Phaser.js framework by adding features and fixing issues related to the BitmapText and general game object types. They added the raw character index to bitmap text bounds and moved the BitmapTextCharacter typedef to the proper location. This indicates a focus on enhancing text rendering capabilities within the game engine. Furthermore, the user also merged branches and fixed auto-indentation.
gamehtml5game-frameworkphaserjs2d-game
depersgroep/dfp-web-advertising
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
DFP async/responsive library
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
dfpresponsiveasync
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