Michael Van Eerd
Squad Lead at Veldsink Groep
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMichael Van Eerd is a pragmatic squad lead and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building and maintaining web applications across Java (Spring), PHP (Symfony), and React/TypeScript stacks. Based in North Brabant, he combines hands-on delivery—deploying and configuring micro webservices for insurance systems—with people leadership since stepping into a squad lead role in 2023. His background as an independent developer exposed him to diverse problems from WebRTC and WebVR to Linux ops, Magento migrations and security testing, giving him an unusual blend of frontend, backend and infrastructure expertise. An open-source contributor to ergonomic keyboard layout tooling, he also digs into hardware-adjacent layout logic, showing curiosity beyond typical web work. Colleagues rely on him to translate product needs into stable, production-ready services while keeping an eye for operational robustness.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
WerediDe Nieuwste School
Dutch, English
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
eda9
kicad9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ergogen/ergogen
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Ergonomic keyboard layout generator
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature improvements within the Ergogen project. Their work involved addressing a `ReferenceError` in the `points.js` file and adjusting the functionality of the `spread` parameter. Additionally, the user made specific footprint modifications to the keyboard layout generation, including changes to `scrollwheel.js` and `mx.js`, indicating work related to the hardware layout generation. These changes focused on the proper handling of rotations and other layout parameters.
layoutergonomicergonomic-keyboardkeyboardkeyboard-layout
cacheworks/Wubbo
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
34-key split keyboard with pinky cluster
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year
splitergonomic-keyboardkeyboardpinkysplit-keyboard
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