Pomax Kamermans
Staff Engineer at Fastly
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPomax Kamermans is a Staff Engineer with 15 years' experience building resilient web platforms and developer-facing tooling, currently at Fastly and long-tenured at Mozilla Foundation. Trained as an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, he blends critical thinking and research-rooted problem solving with practical engineering—shipping both front-end libraries (notably work on react-onclickoutside and a robust DOM diff library) and back-end security improvements like CSP integrations for Mozilla. He runs an educational project for Japanese learners, showing a knack for turning complex domains into usable resources. Comfortable across full-stack concerns and open source ecosystems, he favors clarity and durable designs over ephemeral solutions. An unexpected throughline in his career is applying formal reasoning from multi-agent and distributed perception research to pragmatic UX and tooling problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
van Oldenbarneveld SchoolM.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, Japanese, German, French
Stackoverflow
51,410reputation
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1,359answers
52questions
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Github Skills (81)
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fonts10
data-structure10
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Programming languages (40)
Github contributions (5)
Pomax/react-onclickoutside
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
An onClickOutside wrapper for React components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 211 commits, 139 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pomax focused on enhancing the `react-onclickoutside` library's functionality and usability. Their commits primarily involved modifying the core logic to detect and handle clicks outside of React components. They introduced features like manual control over event listening, implemented new event types, and refactored the code to utilize a higher-order component (HOC) approach. The user also added safeguards for components that may render null and updated tests.
react-modalreactjavascriptonclickreact-component-library
MozillaFoundation/foundation.mozilla.org
May 2017 - Apr 2022
Mozilla Foundation website
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1199 reviews, 758 commits, 2080 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pomax contributed to the backend functionality of the Mozilla Foundation website. The primary focus was on enhancing security, as demonstrated through the implementation of configurable content security policy (CSP) settings using Django-CSP, and by making modifications to the use of a custom content delivery network (CDN) used by the API. Furthermore, the user updated serializers to include absolute glyph paths. The user also worked on Wagtail CMS configuration and added a "Google sign in" feature.
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