Jesse Dijkstra
Founding Engineer & Fullstack Developer at Open Education Foundation
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJesse Dijkstra is a founding engineer and full‑stack developer with over a decade building high-value products across education, healthcare, and journalism. He has led frontend architecture and product teams at fast-growing startups like Blendle and large publishers at DPG Media, shipping an editorial CMS that serves 5,000+ journalists across 30+ brands. Comfortable across React, Elixir, Node, TypeScript and .NET, he combines hands-on engineering with product ownership—driving customizable digital article displays and scalable migration tooling. He’s coached teams in Scrum and DevOps to become self-steering, cutting operational costs through a self-service migration API. As a freelancer and creator of libraries like cells-js and ex_cell, he balances craft with curiosity, blending a musician’s sensibility for UX with pragmatic system design. Based in Utrecht, he now focuses on founding engineering roles that scale impact in education and public-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Management Economy en Recht, HBO Management Economy en Recht at HanzeHigher General Secondary Education Economics Culture and Society, Higher General Secondary Education Economics Culture and Society at Vrije School
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
realtime10
web-application10
rspec10
linting10
javascript10
event-listener10
api10
elixir10
eslint10
ghost10
callback10
child-process10
event-emitter10
android10
ttl10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
blendle/emailcorrect
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Test and auto correct email addresses in Javascript.
Contributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 6 PRs in 2 days
auto-correctcorrectjavascriptemailaddresses
bruggendev/bruggen.dev
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
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