Tom Ootes
Developer En Pleitbezorger Open Source at Developer Overheid NL
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Ootes is a developer advocate and seasoned full‑stack engineer with 11 years of experience building public-sector and commercial web platforms from Utrecht. He currently leads developer outreach and platform work at Developer.overheid.nl, bringing practical front‑end expertise honed at VWS during the Covid-19 contact tracing portal where he raised TypeScript coverage and reduced technical debt. As a longtime freelance developer (Ootes Web) and former frontend specialist at agencies and research labs, he combines hands‑on implementation with a knack for improving code quality and cross-team communication. Comfortable across the stack, Tom often focuses on maintainability and developer experience—skills he now applies to help governments expose usable APIs and documentation for other engineers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Hogeschool van AmsterdamVWO, Nature & Health, VWO, Nature & Health at Werenfridus
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (43)
discoverability10
sustainability9
javascript9
webgl9
svg9
climate-change9
frontend8
act8
canvas8
api8
3d8
vue8
virtual-reality8
metadata8
css8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tomootes/huisloos
Apr 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:22 pushes in 4 years 7 months
developer-overheid-nl/don-site
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:18 reviews, 26 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 months
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