Jasper De Vries
Chief Frontend Developer at DD&H Digital Communication
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolJasper De Vries is a Chief Frontend Developer with over a decade of experience building accessible, usable, and SEO-friendly web interfaces from Ghent, Belgium. He blends deep front-end craft (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with server-side experience in Java/Jakarta EE, PHP and SQL, and a long-standing focus on WCAG and Dutch government web guidelines. At DD&H Digital Communication he leads frontend strategy and implementation, evolving interfaces for real-world usability and compliance. An active open-source contributor, Jasper has enhanced PrimeFaces UI components—improving accessibility and adding practical features like global filtering—demonstrating fluency across both Java backend and frontend layers. Colleagues know him for pragmatic solutions that balance design, performance and regulatory requirements, and for bringing designer tools experience (Photoshop/Illustrator) into developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
University of TwenteVWO, VWO at RSG Enkhuizen
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Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
primefaces/primefaces
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Ultimate Component Suite for Jakarta Faces
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:271 reviews, 228 commits, 214 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jasper primarily contributed to the PrimeFaces component suite, with a focus on enhancements to user interface components. The contributions include adding new features like the `lastItemDisabled` property to the BreadCrumb component, adding a global filter function to the DataTable, and improving the display and accessibility of the components. These changes involved modifications to both Java backend and frontend CSS/JavaScript files, indicating involvement in both aspects of the project.
javaserver-facesadobe-experience-managerjsfwebgljavascript
jepsar/primefaces
Aug 2020 - May 2025
Ultimate Component Suite for JavaServer Faces
Contributions:215 PRs, 478 pushes, 349 branches in 4 years 9 months
java-server
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