Jochum Van Der Ploeg
Software Engineer at FlutterFlow
Netherlands
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Top SchoolJochum Van Der Ploeg is a software engineer from the Netherlands with a decade of experience building developer tools, mobile games, and CLI utilities, and a strong passion for open source. He has contributed to high-profile projects like the Flutter-based Flame engine and Mason template tooling, shipping fixes and features across Dart, Flutter, and web platforms. At Very Good Ventures and now Blue Fire and FlutterFlow, he focused on improving developer experience, test reliability, and cross-platform input/graphics behavior. Comfortable across full-stack and mobile domains, he’s implemented everything from touch controls for a Google I/O pinball game to progress APIs and template generators. Beyond code, he’s an active maintainer mindset—balancing feature work with robust test and documentation improvements—and he openly shares his work at wolfenra.in. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic engineer who brings game-dev curiosity and CLI/tooling rigor to everyday engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBO-4 Computer software and media applications, MBO-4 Computer software and media applications at Friesland CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at WindesheimMBO-2 Fijnmechanische techniek / Fijnmechanisch verspaner, MBO-2 Fijnmechanische techniek / Fijnmechanisch verspaner at Friese Poort
Dutch, English, noord-fries
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Github Skills (29)
test-automation10
mobile-development10
game-engine10
flutter-apps10
command-line-interface10
flame10
command-line-utility10
command-line10
command-line-tool10
flutter-game10
dart10
touches10
game-development10
touch-event10
cli10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
VeryGoodOpenSource/very_good_cli
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
A Very Good Command-Line Interface for Dart created by Very Good Ventures 🦄
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 252 reviews, 11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jochum primarily focused on improving the test suite and ensuring the project's reliability. They addressed issues related to test execution on Windows, particularly with import paths. Furthermore, the user resolved an issue with the escaping of descriptions in the templates, maintaining the correct presentation of the content. They also upgraded the dependencies used by the project, and added a `--verbose` flag, improving the quality of the project.
flutter-packageventurescommand-line-interfacedartflutter
flame-engine/flame
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
A Flutter based game engine.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 710 reviews, 63 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jochum primarily contributed to the Flame game engine by implementing and updating features related to the game's core functionalities. They added methods for background color, improved FPS accuracy, and restructured code using mixins. The user also updated documentation for the widgets and added support for SpriteBatch API on the web. Furthermore, they implemented an ImageComposition class with rotation capabilities.
gamegamedevdartgame-developmentflame
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