Kirsten Ruys
Frontend Developer At Digitale Voorzieningen at City of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKirsten Ruys is a frontend developer based in Amsterdam with a decade of professional software experience and a rare PhD background in cognitive psychology. She transitioned from academic research into web and mobile development in 2012, shipping a successful iOS/Android app for a psychology experiment and later specializing in JavaScript-driven front ends. Her career spans government, media, and agency environments where she combines rigorous experimental thinking with pragmatic engineering—building automated tests, structuring complex features, and bridging front- and back-end teams. Known for breaking down hard problems into manageable pieces and persistent, team-oriented delivery, she currently contributes to digital services at the City of Amsterdam. An underappreciated strength is her expertise in human-centered design informed by cognitive science, which sharpens usability and empathy in her interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamVossius Gymnasium
English, French
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
redux-saga10
sia10
frontend10
react10
data-explorer9
open-access8
codebase6
django6
modeling5
nodejs5
mono5
open-data5
verification5
agent-based-modeling5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nrcmedia/article_tagging_front
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
tagging
kiruys/doodles
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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