Thijs Van Der Vossen
Owner at Fingertips
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Van Der Vossen is an entrepreneurial software engineer and owner of Fingertips with 18 years of experience designing and building web applications and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Based in Amsterdam, he blends hands-on frontend development with product-minded delivery for clients, focusing on elegant, user-centered solutions. His open-source contributions include fixes and DOM utility additions to the well-known Zepto.js library, showing a penchant for lightweight, pragmatic JavaScript. Trained in psychology at the University of Amsterdam, he brings an unusual human-centered perspective to technical design and team collaboration. Comfortable shipping across the full stack, Thijs is known for turning practical constraints into polished digital experiences for "good people."
17 years of coding experience
Psychology, Psychology at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
testing9
html8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
madrobby/zepto
Sep 2010 - Oct 2010
Zepto.js is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers, with a jQuery-compatible API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Thijs contributed to the Zepto.js library by addressing several functional issues. They fixed the `insertAdjacentHTML` functionality and made AJAX calls work for local files. The user also added the `addClass` and `removeClass` methods, expanding the library's DOM manipulation capabilities. Further, they made adjustments to testing by modifying and updating the `assets_functional.html` test file to run correctly.
apijavascript-libraryzeptojquerybrowsers
Fingertips/ColorPicker
Feb 2010 - Mar 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 11 pushes, 7 comments in 6 years 2 months
standaloneos-xcolor-pickermacospicker
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