Niels Poldervaart
Front End Developer at Learnbeat
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Poldervaart is a senior Front End Developer and UX engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building engaging educational interfaces at Learnbeat in The Hague. He blends production-grade front-end development with academic research in game AI, procedural content generation and computational creativity, having taught and assisted courses at Leiden University and lectured in generative design. Niels contributes to creative coding projects—adding p5.js generative sketches to a well-known "Generative Design" code package—demonstrating a practical fusion of art and algorithmic thinking. Comfortable switching between product-driven UX work and exploratory research, he brings a designer’s sensibility to interactive systems and a researcher’s curiosity to shipping polished user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Communication & Multimedia Design at Avans University of Applied SciencesMaster Media Technology, Master Media Technology at Leiden University
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (5)
generative-art10
p5js10
front-end-development9
javascript9
html9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
generative-design/Code-Package-p5.js
Jan 2016 - Jun 2022
Code package of the book: Generative Design – Creative Coding for the Web with JavaScript in p5.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 394 commits, 66 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niels contributed to the development of a visual creative coding project using p5.js, adding multiple sketches for creative exploration. The commits involve adding new sketches and related HTML files. These sketches showcase various generative art techniques.
generative-artp5-sketchesgenerative-designjavascriptp5-js
Niels-NTG/FTLAV
Aug 2015 - Jan 2022
FTL: Faster Than Light Adventure Visualiser
Contributions:7 releases, 194 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 6 months
visualiserftllightvideogamesfaster
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