Matthijs Wensveen
Manager, Product Expertise At Sopra Steria
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMatthijs Wensveen is a seasoned software engineer and product expertise manager based in Oslo with 13 years of professional experience and a background in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University. He combines deep hands-on skills in web development, software architecture and design patterns with practical expertise across Java, C#, Sitecore, SharePoint and frontend technologies like (X)HTML/CSS and XSLT. At Sopra Steria he progressed from senior engineer to manager, guiding product excellence while still contributing code and architecture decisions. As owner of Forsite and long-tenured senior roles, he has repeatedly bridged consultancy, systems architecture and delivery for complex web platforms. An active contributor to open-source privacy tooling, he improved the user experience and DOM-driven initialization in the well-known Facebook Container project, showing attention to UX, performance and maintainable refactors.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Liemers CollegeArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University
Dutch, English, Danish, German, French, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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729kreached
27answers
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Github Skills (13)
webext10
webextension10
javascript10
user-interface10
mutationobserver10
browser-extension10
html9
css7
powershell6
vue6
idioms6
null-coalescing-operator6
coalesce6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/contain-facebook
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthijs focused on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the Facebook Container extension. They implemented a MutationObserver to efficiently detect DOM changes and trigger content script initialization. Their work involved adding new selectors for Facebook login elements, integrating an email relay feature, and refactoring parts of the code for clarity. The changes included addressing prompt styling and functionality.
partytrackingfacebookpreventoutside
mrwensveen/gridracer
Jul 2012 - Nov 2022
A small, turn-based, racing game. Runs on HTML5 canvas and javascript.
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 years 6 months
gameracingcanvasjavascriptruns
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