Martijn Van De Rijdt
Furniture Designer at Atelier MVDR
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartijn Van De Rijdt is a multidisciplinary maker and furniture designer with 13 years of experience blending hands-on woodworking and studio practice with full‑stack web development and humanitarian engineering. He founded and led development of the widely used Enketo open-source project, contributing UI refinements, offline support and media integration that power digital data collection for global aid organizations. His career spans technical roles in WASH, construction engineering and project management for agencies like UNHCR and the European Commission, informing a pragmatic, needs-driven approach to design. Based in Maastricht, he also develops net-zero homes and crafts expressive, joinery-forward furniture that reflects real-world constraints and social impact. Unusually, his practice bridges fieldwork in crisis zones with code-level fixes in open-source software, enabling both physical and digital interventions that scale.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information Technology, M.S., Information Technology at University of LiverpoolM.S., Water and Environmental Management, M.S., Water and Environmental Management at Loughborough UniversityB. E., Building Engineering / Architecture, B. E., Building Engineering / Architecture at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Dutch, javascript
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
form-design10
ui-design9
css9
front-end-development9
uid9
html9
nodejs8
git7
react7
internet-explorer6
google-forms6
flexbox6
xforms6
odk-xform6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
enketo/enketo-express
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
The full-fledged Enketo web application for the ODK ecosystem
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 202 commits, 67 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Martijn primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Enketo Express web application. Their work included addressing issues related to Chrome's file download button, enhancing the performance of autocomplete questions, and ensuring offline-capable URLs worked correctly in Firefox. The user also made updates to the user interface, including the print layout and the "selected" message in the desktop select picker. Further, the user refactored code, added a configuration item for the Enketo ID length, and improved the integration and display of media within the application.
enketowebformjavascriptweb-applicationecosystem
enketo/enketo-roadmap
Apr 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 6 years 5 months
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