Michiel Westerbeek
Co-Founder at Tella
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Westerbeek is a seasoned front-end leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building web-first products, currently leading Tella to simplify video creation and sharing from the browser. He combines hands-on engineering with product-driven leadership, having scaled teams and shipped features through roles at InVision and Bynder and via an acquisition of his prior startup Kopie. Deeply pragmatic and data-informed, he still contributes to open source—adding performance-minded batching controls to the widely used Apollo Client library—showing attention to real-world edge cases and test coverage. Based in Rotterdam, he blends startup grit with structured engineering practices to deliver usable, maintainable digital experiences.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor's degree Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (15)
graphql10
batch10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
batching10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
graphql-client9
xml6
docx6
php6
xslt6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/apollo-client
May 2017 - Jun 2017
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michiel contributed to the Apollo Client library by implementing and testing features related to query batching. Their work included adding the `batchMax` parameter to control the number of queries batched in a single request, which impacts performance. They also fixed existing tests and created new ones to ensure the correct functionality of the `batchMax` feature. The user addressed edge cases by preventing unnecessary HTTP calls when there were no queued requests and refactored the code to directly consume the queue when the batch maximum is reached.
graphql-clientapollographqlui-frameworkproduction-readycaching
Bynder/dsf
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
stringjavascriptdecentformatterstring-formatter
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