Niek Raaijmakers
Software Development Engineer at Adobe
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNiek Raaijmakers is a Software Development Engineer based in Basel with around eight years of professional experience and over a decade of hands-on work across front-end and back-end web technologies. He has a strong Adobe AEM background from multiple roles at Adobe, contributing both server-side caching improvements (including a Caffeine cache implementation) and modern front-end SPA features with React/Angular and SSR support in widely used archetypes. Comfortable in Agile consulting environments, he combines Java/OSGi microarchitecture skills with practical frontend optimizations like code-splitting and performance-first component design. Niek’s profile reflects a consultative mindset—setting up CI/CD and platform guidelines—while still committing code that improves real-world caching and request handling in open-source AEM projects.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor of ICT, Information science, bachelor of ICT, Information science at Avans HogeschoolWillem 2 College Tilburg
English, Dutch, German, French
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Github Skills (19)
caching10
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javascript10
guideline10
server-side-rendering10
java10
javas10
server-rendering10
adobe10
aem10
react10
angular10
server-side10
webpack9
webpacker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/aem-project-archetype
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Maven template to create best-practice websites on AEM.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Niek primarily contributed to the development of the React and Angular front-end components within the AEM project archetype. Their work involved adding core components like containers, experience fragments, and other components to the React and Angular archetypes. The user also implemented code-splitting techniques to improve the performance of the Angular SPA and supported the integration of SSR (Server Side Rendering) for both Angular and React applications, including support for IO runtime.
aemmavenadobeaem-sitejava
Adobe-Consulting-Services/acs-aem-commons
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 56 commits, 71 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niek's commits primarily focus on enhancing the HTTP cache functionality within the ACS AEM Commons repository. They implemented features like persisting the response write method state, introducing a new Caffeine cache implementation, and adding functionalities for response header and cookie exclusions. The user also worked on refactoring and adding new capabilities to the cache key extensions, making them more flexible and incorporating request-based parameters.
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