Summary
Tjitte De Vries is a seasoned front-end developer with 10 years of professional experience building and maintaining high-traffic websites for clients such as NOS, Tele2, Robeco and GrandVision. He combines a strong grounding in web standards and usability with practical expertise in modern tooling—TypeScript, SASS, Webpack, React and Jest—delivering robust, maintainable front-ends for both public-facing platforms and enterprise applications. Having worked both in-house and as a consultant, he’s comfortable navigating cross-functional teams and legacy stacks, from Vanilla JS and PHP to contemporary component-driven architectures. Based in Joure, Netherlands, he’s known for a quiet focus on coding standards and continuous learning, often choosing pragmatic solutions that balance speed and long-term maintainability. An early Rails and system-administration background gives him a broader appreciation for full-stack concerns and operational realities beyond the browser.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Multimedia Design at NHL Hogeschool
MBO, Network and System Administration/Administrator, MBO, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Friese Poort