Richard Venneman
Senior Software Engineer at beehiiv
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRichard Venneman is a senior full-stack engineer and engineering director based in Utrecht with 14 years of experience building and scaling web products from startup to acquisition. He pairs hands-on implementation—React, Scala, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and modern front-end toolchains—with operational leadership, having led deliverability, security and CI/TDD initiatives at Revue and Twitter and now driving product engineering at beehiiv. As a founder and partner on multiple ventures he launched revenue-generating platforms, built booking/billing systems, and created rapid-deployment component frameworks that supported fast experimentation. He also contributes to open-source JavaScript analytics tooling, having added robust tracking and test coverage to ankane/ahoy.js, reflecting a practical focus on observability and quality. Practical, product-minded and comfortable on both customer-facing UI and backend integration, he brings entrepreneurial rigor to engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia, Mobile application design, Bachelor of Multimedia, Mobile application design at Noordelijke Hogeschool LeeuwardenHAVO, Economics and sociology, HAVO, Economics and sociology at De Nieuwe Veste
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
testing10
event-sourcing10
analytics10
event-emitter10
front-end-development10
eventsource10
eventing10
css9
jscript9
css-float9
html9
parse-platform6
ruby-on-rails6
xcode6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ankane/ahoy.js
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Simple, powerful JavaScript analytics
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard focused on building and testing a JavaScript analytics library. They set up the testing framework, implemented test helpers, and added tests for visit and event tracking. The user also added click, view, and other manual tracking functionalities. Furthermore, they refactored and improved the codebase by rewriting event tracking functions.
analyticseventslucky-frameworkjavascriptmeasurement
richardvenneman/instagrammer
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
📷 Instagrammer lets you fetch Instagram user info and posts
Contributions:61 commits, 4 PRs, 47 pushes in 3 months
fetchinstagrampostsinstagram-user
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