Maarten Brouwers
Software Engineer at HeerlijkZoeken
Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaarten Brouwers is a Software Engineer based in the Netherlands with 15 years of experience improving user-centered processes and building full‑stack web applications, often with Ruby on Rails. He blends interaction design and engineering—shaping UX while shipping robust back ends and devops workflows for clients like KNMI, Digidentity and ING. As a long-term freelancer and founder of HeerlijkZoeken.nl he combines consultancy with hands‑on product work, from ElasticSearch search engines to realtime Elixir prototypes. He contributes to open-source front-end tooling (e.g., enhancing Leaflet.TimeDimension examples and removing jQuery dependencies) and cares about pragmatic, dependency-light implementations. Colleagues rely on him for performance tuning, security‑minded features, and turning complex domain needs into maintainable systems. His background in Human‑Technology Interaction gives him an unusually strong focus on measurable user outcomes alongside technical quality.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Human Technology Interaction, Human Technology Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBEng Interaction Design, BEng Interaction Design at Saxion University of Applied SciencesMSc Human Technology Interaction, MSc Human Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMA Interaction Design, MA Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)AKI
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
html10
javascript10
leaflet10
wms9
json6
rspec6
yaml6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Add time dimension capabilities on a Leaflet map.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 30 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily focused on improving the user interface and example implementations for the Leaflet.TimeDimension library. Their commits involved removing dependencies like jQuery, enhancing example code, and updating HTML examples. The user also made changes to the JavaScript files, ensuring correct rendering of code examples and improvements to the display.
leafletreact-leafletmarkersjavascriptdimension
qkunst/collectiemanagement
Dec 2016 - Aug 2021
Voor het beheren van kunstcollecties, door QKunst
Contributions:1230 commits, 76 PRs, 1307 pushes in 4 years 9 months
collectiebeheerreactcollectiemanagementkunstdoor
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