Thijs Broerse
Founder Lead Web Development Consultant at iLoan
Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Broerse is a frontend-focused founder and technical leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling high-quality web platforms, currently running Glaciavis and leading frontend efforts across several senior roles. He specializes in React, TypeScript and Next.js, and has a proven track record of establishing architecture, coding standards and CI-driven quality at scale—most notably as Global Frontend Lead at MediaMonks where he guided 140 developers worldwide. Thijs is hands-on in delivery, having single-handedly taken complex React/TypeScript products from concept to production and championing practices like URL-as-state, typed APIs and comprehensive testing. He excels at developing people as much as systems, coaching engineers from junior to leadership roles and leveraging cultural diversity in international teams. His background in interaction design and early work on social and rich web applications give him a distinctive mix of UX sensitivity and engineering rigor.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Interaction Design, MA, Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Master of Arts, Interaction Design, Master of Arts, Interaction Design at University of PortsmouthBa, Kunst & Techniek, Ba, Kunst & Techniek at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (19)
handlebars9
frontend8
boilerplate8
react8
backend8
javascript8
paths8
webpack7
skeleton7
react-router6
nodejs6
params5
linting5
router5
bundler4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mediamonks/frontend-coding-standards
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Media.Monks - Frontend Coding Standards
Contributions:145 commits in 1 year
reactjavascriptstandardsfrontendmediamonks
ThijsTyZ/router-path
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Utility to create router paths from a template and replaces the params. Design for, but not limited to, React-router
Contributions:28 commits in 2 years 5 months
reactparamseffectorpathsreact-router
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