Kees Kluskens
Software Engineer at Tango
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKees Kluskens is a software engineer in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and rapid prototypes, currently innovating documentation tools at Tango. He blends product-minded prototyping with production engineering, having co-founded Volst and shipped features end-to-end for startups and events. An active open-source contributor and former webpack core team member, Kees has made notable contributions to webpack, webpack-dev-server and related tooling that improved CLI, HMR and developer UX. His work has been recognized with an Apple Design Award (Odio) and a Google Extension Favorite (Tango) in 2022, reflecting both design sensibility and technical polish. Comfortable across front-end, middleware and build tooling, he often surfaces practical fixes—linting, schema validation and error overlays—that make developer workflows smoother.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Business economics / Economie en management / Economie en zakelijk beheer, VWO, Business economics / Economie en management / Economie en zakelijk beheer at Sondervick CollegeBachelor's degree, Media Design, 8, Bachelor's degree, Media Design, 8 at Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven
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Github Skills (43)
test-automation10
javascript10
middleware10
clientside10
command-line-interface10
bundle10
webpack10
front-end-development10
bundler10
webpacker10
command-line10
build-tools10
nodejs10
bundling10
react10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
webpack/webpack-dev-server
Aug 2015 - Sep 2018
Serves a webpack app. Updates the browser on changes. Documentation https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 245 commits, 127 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kees primarily contributed to the `webpack-dev-server`, enhancing its functionality and improving the developer experience. Their work included adding new command-line interface options for SSL certificate configuration, replacing socket.io with SockJS to remove a dependency, and implementing an error overlay for better debugging. They also focused on improving the client-side code, including fixing websocket connections and adding HMR functionality, and ensuring the tool's compatibility with Webpack 4.
webpack-pluginchangeswebpack-jsbrowserdev
webpack/webpack-dev-middleware
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
A development middleware for webpack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 72 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kees primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the webpack-dev-middleware. Their contributions included fixing linting errors, addressing inconsistencies in code style, and adding tests for various functionalities like file serving, custom headers, and lazy mode. They also worked on fixing issues with range headers and handling multi-compiler configurations, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's core functionality.
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