Thomas Rutten is a Front End Tech Lead based in Flemish Brabant with six years of focused experience building accessible, user-centered web interfaces and design system components. He has progressed from SharePoint and consulting roles into lead front-end positions at ING Belgium and now Baloise BE, while maintaining an active freelance practice since 2017. Thomas contributes to notable open-source work such as ING’s lion web component library, where he improved input-date and validation components and enhanced accessibility and documentation. He brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on JavaScript/web component expertise and team leadership, having led migrations and established front-end ways of working for startups and enterprises. Known for fixing tricky UI bugs and adding thoughtful features like overlay invoker relations, he cares about developer experience as much as end-user accessibility. His background in informatics and broad exposure to both enterprise and startup environments gives him an uncommon fluency across legacy platforms and modern frontend architectures.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
Fundamental white label web component features for your design system.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the web component library by fixing bugs and implementing new features. They addressed issues in input-date and validation components. The user also improved the documentation for styled dialog content and added an invoker relation option for overlays, demonstrating a focus on accessibility and user experience. The contributions primarily involved JavaScript and web component technologies.
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