JP Erasmus
Platform Engineer
Heerhugowaard, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJP Erasmus is a pragmatic software leader with 12 years of experience architecting and scaling web platforms, currently serving as Head of Development at Regal Digital in the Netherlands. He combines structural thinking—designing systems like a building—with hands-on delivery across full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript, progressive web apps, and microservices. His background includes senior roles at Klarna and leading product engineering for Flamelink, a Firebase CMS that reached 12,000 users globally, and large-scale logistics work powering millions of near-real-time transactions. Comfortable switching between team leadership, developer tooling, and CI/CD, he has a track record of shipping subscription and webhook systems, SDKs, and internationalized products. Trained in Computer Systems and React, JP brings both technical depth and the operational experience to turn complex, distributed requirements into resilient, maintainable solutions. Notably, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade coordination—having overseen feature teams across continents while still contributing to core code and platform decisions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusCertificate, React Nanodegree, Certificate, React Nanodegree at UdacityEngineering Certificate, Information Systems, Engineering Certificate, Information Systems at CTI Education GroupShort course, Start and Manage your own Business, Short course, Start and Manage your own Business at GetSmarter
Swedish, Dutch, Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (200)
visual-editor10
backbone10
spreadsheet10
browser10
doc10
firebase-database10
full-stack10
nodejs10
css10
typesafe10
cms10
flamelink10
styled-components10
datatable10
firebase10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flamelink/gatsby-source-flamelink
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Gatsby source plugin for Flamelink
Contributions:72 commits, 31 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
flamelinkgatsbyjsgatsbyfirebasegatsby-source
flamelink/flamelink-js-sdk
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
🦊 Official Flamelink JavaScript SDK for both the Firebase Realtime database and Cloud Firestore
Contributions:372 commits, 117 PRs, 162 pushes in 3 years 10 months
firebase-realtime-databasefirestoreflamelinkjavascriptfirebase
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