Theron Tjapkes
Associate Application Developer - Enterprise Web Services
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTheron Tjapkes is an Associate Application Developer with 10 years of hands-on experience building enterprise web services at Spectrum Health, where he progressed from multiple internships into a steady development role. He blends backend and frontend sensibilities to deliver reliable, maintainable applications for healthcare systems, with a practical appreciation for security earned during earlier analyst internships. Outside work he contributes to open-source tooling for macOS—most notably a Swift-based app that customizes scroll behavior—demonstrating strong UI/UX instincts and macOS platform expertise. Based in the Grand Rapids area, he pairs steady institutional knowledge of healthcare IT with a curiosity for desktop user experience problems not often tackled by typical web developers. Colleagues know him for shipping thoughtful, accessibility-minded UI improvements and for bridging the gap between user preferences and system-level behavior.
10 years of coding experience
Calvin University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
user-preferences10
system-preferences10
swift10
user-interface10
sharedpreferences10
ui-design10
interface-design10
preference10
user-experience9
ux-design9
accessibility7
iokit7
android-studio6
android-gradle-plugin6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Invert scroll direction for physical scroll wheels while maintaining "Natural" scrolling for trackpads on MacOS
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 24 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Theron primarily focused on developing the user interface and user experience for the "UnnaturalScrollWheels" macOS application. They implemented a preferences UI, allowing users to configure scroll wheel behavior and mouse acceleration. Contributions included adding new preferences options, menu bar integration, and addressing accessibility issues. The work involved modifying the application's delegate, view controllers, and options classes, demonstrating expertise in Swift and macOS app development.
smooth-scrollingscrollscrollingphysicalinvert
ther0n/beefweb_mpris
Aug 2021 - Sep 2024
Add MPRIS support to foobar2000 running in WINE on Linux through the beefweb component REST API
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
apiwinelinuxmpris2rest
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