Maarten Staa
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaarten Staa is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Randstad with over a decade of experience building full-stack web products and learning platforms. He has led development of Laravel/GraphQL backends and React/TypeScript frontends at Bright Alley and now contributes at scale from his role at Spotify. Pragmatic and quality-driven, he excels at untangling complex problems, mentoring teams, and shaping engineering processes as an “expertise captain.” An active contributor to DefinitelyTyped, he has improved TypeScript definitions for Sortablejs to make them stricter and more importable—demonstrating an attention to developer experience beyond product code. His background spans game tooling, PHP backends, and occasional C# client work, giving him a versatile perspective on delivering reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Major, Game Design and Development, Programming Major, Game Design and Development at Qantm CollegeHAVO, High school, HAVO, High school at Bonhoeffer College
Dutch, English, Romanian
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Github Skills (17)
static-typing10
typesc10
javascript10
typescript10
type-system10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
mysql9
ajax9
jquery9
type-definition9
php9
innerhtml9
html6
syntax6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 1 PR in 6 days
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily contributed to improving the TypeScript type definitions for the Sortablejs library within the DefinitelyTyped repository. They enhanced the type definitions by using `HTMLElement` where appropriate, making them stricter, and restructuring them to allow type importing. The contributions included adding missing options, documenting the library's functionality, and addressing compatibility issues with TypeScript versions, improving the overall developer experience for users of Sortablejs.
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brightalley/forum-app-blade
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:19 PRs, 22 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
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