Stephan Meijer
Owner, Engineer, Innovator
Leeuwarden, Frisia, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStephan Meijer is a seasoned CTO and full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience building production web and geospatial applications using Node.js, MongoDB and React. As founder of meijer.works and creator of the GoWion/Clearly collaboration platform, he has led product development and remote teams while delivering geospatial solutions for enterprise clients like Akzo Nobel and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He combines hands-on engineering with product ownership—shipping front-end polish and backend tooling—and maintains practical open-source projects such as unimported, which helps JS teams find dangling files and unused deps. Based in Leeuwarden, he balances entrepreneurial drive with family life (dad, husband) and a steady stream of technical blogging and maintenance of cross-project integrations. An early career in geomatics and CAD gives him a rare blend of spatial domain expertise and modern web platform craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
VMBO-T, Economie, Wiskunde, Natuurkunde, VMBO-T, Economie, Wiskunde, Natuurkunde at Comenius College te LeeuwardenHBO, Geodesie, HBO, Geodesie at Hogeschool van UtrechtMBO 4, Bouwkunde, MBO 4, Bouwkunde at Friesland College te Leeuwarden
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
website-development10
leaflet10
typescript10
remix10
tailwindcss10
geocoding10
typescript-types10
maps10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
storybook9
jquery9
cli9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
smeijer/leaflet-geosearch
Jan 2013 - Oct 2022
A geocoding/address-lookup library supporting various api providers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 58 reviews, 213 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the front-end development of a geocoding/address-lookup library. Their work involved addressing browser compatibility issues, specifically with Internet Explorer, by implementing CORS support. They also addressed issues related to provider API changes by implementing workarounds. Further enhancements included adding a Nokia geocoding provider and adding events to the control.
apiaddress-lookupgeocodingjavascriptaddress
smeijer/unimported
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Find and fix dangling files and unused dependencies in your JavaScript projects.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 48 reviews, 131 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and features of the `unimported` project. Their work involved adding support for various import scenarios, including those with extensions, root slashes, and dynamic imports. The user also implemented features such as support for flow type and mono-repo workspace import aliases. Additionally, they focused on improving user experience by adding update hints and handling various configuration options.
dependenciesfixjavascript-projectsunusedjavascript
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