Summary
Rommert Zijlstra is a senior software engineer and front-end specialist with over a decade of professional experience and two decades of hands-on work across the full stack. He currently scales a Ruby on Rails giftcard exchange at Wissel.nl while also serving as lead/front-end technical lead on multiple Web3 projects, having designed production-grade architectures for NFT rentals, memecoin platforms, and competitive web games. Known for bridging product, design and engineering, he has led onboarding, hiring, mentoring, and established front-end best practices, CI/CD pipelines and accessibility standards across teams. Pragmatic and performance-minded, he introduced forked-chain end-to-end testing to catch Web3 release issues and has driven systems that handled thousands of daily rental transactions. A proud dad and lifelong tinkerer, he blends agency founder experience with in-house leadership to turn complex UX and decentralized ideas into reliable, shippable products. Based in Utrecht, he pairs curiosity about interaction design with deep front-end craft and pragmatic backend architecture.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
New Media & Digital Culture, Unfinished, New Media & Digital Culture, Unfinished at Universiteit Utrecht
Minor, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Concept Development, Minor, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Concept Development at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English