Jilles Soeters
Developer Relations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJilles Soeters is a seasoned full-stack developer and Developer Relations professional with 12 years of experience building and advocating for developer-first products across companies like Cloudflare, Udemy and ING. Based in Austin, he has driven localisation and course-taking experiences at Udemy for millions of learners and later moved into DevRel to bridge engineering and community. His background spans front-end focus and accessibility improvements—evident in contributions to the popular Ghost publishing platform where he improved UX and fixed tricky metadata and navigation bugs. A five-year Google Developer Expert alum and longtime open-source contributor, he combines hands-on implementation with public-facing technical communication. Jilles brings practical consulting experience from enterprise JavaScript projects and a knack for turning UX edge-cases into reliable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Application Development, Bachelor's degree Application Development at ROC ZadkineMaerlant College
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (11)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
web-application10
handlebars9
nodejs9
css5
publish4
cms4
microblogging4
blogpost4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jilles primarily contributed to front-end and minor back-end modifications within the Ghost publishing platform. They focused on enhancing the user experience and improving accessibility by adding `target="_blank"` attributes to support links, modifying HTML and templates. The user also addressed a bug related to meta-data, replacing an `<a>` tag with a `<button>` to prevent unwanted behavior. Additionally, they made changes related to the rendering of the previous and next page links in head.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
jillesme/AdBlockCheck
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 9 months
adblockvisitors
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