Koen Van Klaren is a Data Analyst with 15 years of professional experience who progressed from sales into analytics and now works at Sana Commerce after a cum laude M.Sc. in Business Information Management from Rotterdam School of Management. He blends business-domain insight with hands-on technical skills, having contributed front-end TypeScript typings and tests to the popular pmndrs/use-gesture library while also maintaining a frontend engineering presence on GitHub. At Sana Commerce he advanced from internship to junior analyst to analyst, demonstrating a rapid ability to turn product and operational data into actionable insights. His background in sales gives him an uncommon customer-focused perspective when interpreting data and prioritizing metrics. Comfortable across BI tooling and front-end codebases, he’s equally at home validating data quality as he is improving developer experience through typings and tests. Based in the Randstad, he pairs rigorous academic training (8.4/10 GPA) with practical engineering contributions that improve maintainability and type safety.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Cum Laude Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Information Management, GPA: 8.4/10, Cum Laude Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Information Management, GPA: 8.4/10 at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Lancaster University
👇Bread n butter utility for component-tied mouse/touch gestures in React and Vanilla Javascript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Koen primarily focused on enhancing the codebase with type definitions and testing. They added TypeScript typings for the `use-gesture` library, creating `index.d.ts` files and writing tests to ensure the correct typing of the components. Additionally, the user added tests for the `Gesture` component, demonstrating a focus on improving code quality and maintainability through comprehensive testing practices. They also updated the typings for touch/mouse props and refactored the event handlers.
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