Sjoerd de Jong
Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorSjoerd De Jong is a veteran game developer and developer community leader with over two decades in the games industry, currently directing Developer Community at Epic Games from Greater Uppsala. He built and runs dev.epicgames.com/community and leads teams across Community, Evangelism, Example Content, Online Learning and Documentation to support Unreal Engine, Reality Capture, the Epic Games Store and Fortnite/UEFN. As a founder of Teotl Studios and creative lead on multiple commercial releases (over one million copies sold), he blends hands-on design, environment art and technical production with strategic community and business development. He has a long history of teaching and mentoring—running Futuregames’ curriculum and onboarding studios—and repeatedly turns novice teams into industry-ready talent. An early community builder, Sjoerd ran major Unreal communities and produced dozens of tutorials, books and content packs, and still contributes to open-source projects such as PouchDB where he improved back-end HTTP query capabilities. Practical, public-facing, and deeply technical, he uniquely combines indie studio grit with enterprise-scale developer relations.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
http10
databases10
couchdb10
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
database10
back-end-development9
pouchdb9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pouchdb
Jan 2013 - Aug 2016
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sjoerd primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the PouchDB project, focusing on HTTP adapter improvements. They implemented features allowing for multiple keys in queries, crucial for large data retrieval, and modified existing code to allow for specifying authentication data. Their work also involved addressing code style inconsistencies and fixing merge conflicts within the codebase. These changes aimed to enhance query capabilities and improve overall code maintainability.
databasepouchdbjavascriptcouchdb
racido/broccoli-manifest
May 2014 - Sep 2015
HTML5 cache-manifest compilation for broccoli
Contributions:30 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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