Timon Van Spronsen
Lead Software Engineer at Cimpress Technology
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTimon Van Spronsen is a Lead Software Engineer based in Rotterdam with 11 years of hands-on experience building and shipping complex web applications and internal platforms. He currently leads the Design System effort at Cimpress Technology, shaping a TypeScript-based Design Stack that serves hundreds of internal apps and collaborating closely with UX and product to ensure consistency and accessibility. Timon blends front-end craftsmanship (React, TypeScript) with back-end experience (Node, Elixir, GraphQL) and a strong focus on testable, maintainable code. He has a history of mentoring small teams in agency and product settings and previously helped scale LessonUp to thousands of daily teachers. An active open-source contributor, he improved core logic in the popular release-drafter project to better categorize PRs and generate release notes. His background as a co-owner of a small dev studio and research into recommendation systems reveals both entrepreneurial instincts and a curiosity for applied machine learning techniques.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesHavo, Havo at Jacob van Liesveldt
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
372reputation
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Github Skills (15)
nodejs10
javascript10
release-automation10
releasenotes10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
git6
eve6
accessibility6
api6
github6
elixir6
elixir-mix6
angularjs6
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
release-drafter/release-drafter
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 89 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Timon primarily contributed to the core logic of the release-drafter application. Their work involved refactoring and modifying the `lib/releases.js` file to categorize pull requests and generate release notes. Key changes included deriving category order from configuration, fixing label handling, and updating related test files. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the application's ability to process and present release information.
mergednotesprobot-apprelease-notesrelease-automation
awkward/sketch-palette-generator
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
palettesketchjsoncolour-palettecolour
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