Paul Roeland
Transparency Lead at Clean Clothes Campaign
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Roeland is a transparency and open-source technologist with 14+ years' experience blending supply-chain transparency leadership and hands-on web/sysadmin skills from Amsterdam. As Transparency Lead at Clean Clothes Campaign and a long-standing Plone contributor and board member, he brings deep expertise in accessible front-end development (notably improving ARIA and keyboard navigation in the popular Volto Plone frontend) alongside governance experience on Open Supply Hub and other non-profits. He combines practical full-stack problem solving—rooted in years as a sysadmin and web programmer—with a focus on making complex supply-chain data auditable and usable. Colleagues value his attention to accessibility and pragmatic code fixes as much as his ability to steer collaborative, mission-driven projects.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Geophysics, Geophysics at Utrecht University
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (14)
accessibility10
css10
acessibility10
volta10
robotframework10
javascript10
plone10
acc10
front-end-development10
react10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
fest8
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plone/Products.CMFPlone
May 2012 - Sep 2019
The core of the Plone content management system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to front-end development tasks, focusing on improving the user interface and accessibility. They added a `:focus` class to the toolbar for better keyboard navigation and improved the screenshots for the Plone documentation, including the robot framework setup and testing for content rules and TinyMCE elements. The contributions also included bug fixes, specifically addressing issues related to portlet blocking during site creation.
cmsmanagement-systemphpcfmlplone
plone/volto
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
React-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to improving the accessibility of the Volto frontend for Plone CMS. They focused on adding and adjusting ARIA labels, ensuring proper landmark roles, and converting a tags to buttons for improved usability. The contributions span multiple UI components, including those for managing content, displaying search widgets, and theming the site's footer and navigation. Their work reflects a focus on enhancing the user experience and adhering to accessibility standards.
management-systemreactvoltoplonefrontend
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