Thijs Suijten
Director at Hack the Planet
Leiderdorp, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Suijten is a technology leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience building products that span backend, web, mobile, hardware and embedded systems. As Director of Hack The Planet and a long-time Q42 engineer, he blends pragmatic engineering with mission-driven projects—using VR to foster peace, autonomous drones to monitor forest fires, and scalable systems to detect poachers. He has steered teams from CTO roles to product-focused consulting, shipping consumer apps (PostNL, Rijksmuseum, 9292) and launching hardware-software products through crowdfunding. An active mobile contributor, he built an Android scrolling image view library that showcases his attention to UX and reusable components. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs public speaking and client-facing consulting with a taste for creative hobbies—learning guitar and flying race drones—reflecting a mix of technical depth and adventurous curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, HAVO at Visser 't Hooft LyceumHBO Technische Informatica, HBO Technische Informatica at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
javas10
bitmap10
bitmaps10
android10
java10
android-native-library9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
android-library9
uid9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Q42/AndroidScrollingImageView
Aug 2015 - Jan 2021
An Android view for displaying repeated continuous side scrolling images. This can be used to create a parallax animation effect.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 releases, 31 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thijs primarily contributed to the development of an Android library for creating scrolling image views, focusing on the core functionality of the view. Key contributions include refactoring code, fixing scrolling behavior, and adding features such as a random scene generator and initial state control. They also added a sample application to demonstrate the usage of the scrolling image view.
parallaxanimationscrollingviewpagercontinuous
Q42/RxPromise
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
A Promise wrapper around RxJava's Observable
Contributions:8 releases, 48 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
rxjsrxjavaobservablepromise-wrapperreactive
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