Matthijs Hoekstra
Co-Founder at Shiftleader
Leeuwarden, Frisia, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthijs Hoekstra is a product-minded engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications and teams from Leeuwarden, Netherlands. With a frontend background in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Vue, he pairs UX sensibilities with hands-on DevOps skills—Docker, Unix, AWS and MySQL—to move products from prototype to production. He led front-end development at TRES Internet for a decade and now shapes product and engineering direction at Shiftleader. An active open-source contributor, Matthijs improved internationalization for the popular Flood web UI, adding react-intl support and Dutch translations to make the app more accessible. His blend of practical UX, CMS/commerce experience and infrastructure know-how helps bridge design and operations in small-team startups.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Piter Jelles MontessoriBachelor of Multimedia, Bachelor of Multimedia at NHL Hogeschool
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
i18n-js10
javascript10
ember-i18n10
react-intl10
front-end-development10
rails-i18n10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Flood-UI/flood
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
A web UI for rTorrent, qBittorrent and Transmission with a Node.js backend and React frontend. Migrate to v4: https://github.com/jesec/flood/wiki/Migrate-from-older-versions-of-Flood.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthijs primarily focused on implementing internationalization (i18n) features within the Flood UI project. They added support for multiple languages by integrating `react-intl`, implemented translations for various UI elements like the sidebar, settings modal, and torrent details, and added Dutch translations. The contributions demonstrate a focus on making the user interface more accessible and adaptable to different language preferences.
floodreactqbittorrenttransmissionreact-frontend
mahoek/flood
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
reactreact-frontendweb-uinode-jsp2p
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