Roemer Vlasveld
Staff Engineer at Personio
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoemer Vlasveld is a Staff Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building full‑stack internet technologies and shaping engineering teams. He has led cross‑functional efforts at Plaid for open banking payments and connectivity across the UK and EEA, and held multiple senior engineering roles at Facebook before joining Personio. Roemer combines a passion for high code quality with hands‑on frontend work—his open‑source contributions include UX improvements to a widely used web visualization library, enhancing zoom controls and tooltip behavior. He excels at mentoring engineers and translating business needs into pragmatic technical solutions that scale. With a background in Technical Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University, he brings both rigorous analytical thinking and practical product sensibility. Colleagues know him for elevating developer impact through thoughtful code and team coaching.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Utrecht UniversityVWO, Natuur en Techniek, VWO, Natuur en Techniek at Montessori Lyceum Herman Jordan, Zeist
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
facebook10
visualizations9
visualization9
facebook-graph-api9
facebook-android-sdk6
ios6
api6
php6
android6
iphone6
ruby-on-rails6
html4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
almende/chap-links-library
May 2013 - Jun 2013
a web based visualization library for displaying graphs, networks, and timelines
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Roemer primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the visualization library. Their contributions involved refining the appearance of zoom controls by centering them and adjusting their vertical alignment. They also added functionality to improve user interaction by implementing a mouseout event to hide tooltips when the mouse leaves the graph frame, thereby improving the user experience. These modifications were specific to the JavaScript/CSS version of the library.
visualization-libraryweb-basedgraphsdata-visualizationgraph
rvlasveld/oc_svm
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:60 commits in 5 months
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