Tom-eric Gerritsen
Senior Software Engineer at Eet.nu
Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorTom-eric Gerritsen is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building pragmatic, user-focused web applications from the Netherlands. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and full-stack web technologies (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and has led product development at Eet.nu, shipping features like a low-friction realtime reservation system and a minute-scale website builder for restaurants. Tom-eric combines hands-on coding with data-driven product insight, regularly mining metrics to uncover opportunities and prioritize fast, customer-facing iterations. He has contributed to notable open-source Rails tooling—improving tagging performance and usability in acts-as-taggable-on—and is comfortable adapting to new platforms, having worked on iOS and PHP projects earlier in his career. Pragmatic and delivery-oriented, he focuses on making useful software available quickly while keeping an eye on performance and localization for broader reach.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
ruby-on-rails10
rails10
activerecord10
rspec10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on
Nov 2009 - Jun 2010
A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom-eric primarily contributed to the Rails application by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to tagging functionality. Their work included enabling the addition of tags via arrays, resolving issues with chained scopes, and re-adding the :match_all and :exclude options for filtering tags. The user also addressed issues with database performance by removing unnecessary joins and fixing issues with taggers to ensure tags weren't lost. The core focus was improving the usability and performance of the tagging system.
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsrubytagging
tomeric/operator
Nov 2017 - Nov 2024
TODO: one-line summary of your gem
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes in 7 years
ruby-gemrailsrubygemtodo
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