Rik Jurriaans
Staff Software Engineer at Tempcover
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRik Jurriaans is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused full-stack applications and leading teams through impactful technical migrations. He’s driven measurable business outcomes—lifting Core Web Vitals by up to 50%, increasing conversion rates, and cutting AWS costs by 25%—while architecting design systems that bridge web and native platforms. At Uswitch he rearchitected major verticals with Astro and React islands, authored bespoke state management, and helped scale hiring across the organisation. Pragmatic and hands-on, Rik combines front-end performance expertise with backend and serverless experience, mentors engineers at all levels, and experiments with developer productivity tools like GitHub Copilot. An early Clojure/ClojureScript practitioner and animation-trained creative, he brings a rare blend of systems thinking and design sensibility to complex engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Alessandro Camporata private mentorshipBachelor's Degree Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor's Degree Communication and Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMinor Artificial Intelligence, Minor Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamMBO 4 Interaction design, MBO 4 Interaction design at Mediacollege AmsterdamCharacter Animation, Character Animation at Animation Mentor
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (41)
utilities10
dependency-free10
lodash10
classes9
javascript-tools9
javascript9
data-exchange9
enums9
requirejs9
modularity9
es6-modules8
dsa7
typescript7
styled-components7
commonjs7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RikJurriaans/.dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
RikJurriaans/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 months
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