Nick Kraakman
Freelance Web Developer at Value Spreadsheet
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Kraakman is a freelance full-stack web developer based in Amsterdam with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering web apps, APIs and modern frontends across FinTech, VR and media. He specializes in PHP (Laravel, Phalcon) and Python, while also shipping production work with Angular, React and Electron, and has led mixed on-site and remote teams as a technical architect. As founder of Value Spreadsheet and creator of Value Scout he combines product thinking with data-driven automation to analyze the entire US stock market daily. His open-source contributions include improving a WebGL toolchain’s FBX-to-glTF converter to handle textures and zipped assets more robustly, reflecting attention to tooling and asset pipelines. Outside software he tinkers with high-voltage and electromechanical projects—Tesla coils and electric motors—bringing hands-on hardware intuition to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
OBS De FuikMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Information and Knowledge Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Information and Knowledge Management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Jan van Egmond college
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
3d10
gltf10
python10
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
shutil9
command-line-arguments8
visualizations7
visualization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pissang/claygl
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
A WebGL graphic library for building scalable Web3D applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on enhancing the `fbx2gltf.py` tool, which is essential for converting FBX files to the glTF format. Their contributions focused on improving texture handling, including correctly copying textures to the output directory and addressing issues related to zip files. They also removed debugging statements and made modifications to allow the converter to be launched by other scripts.
visualizationscalablewebglweb3dthreejs
headjack-dev/gltf-api
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
API to convert OBJ, FBX and COLLADA files to glTF or GLB
Contributions:76 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
apidefoldcolladafbxglb
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