Wim Herder
Fullstack Webdeveloper & AI Researcher at Academy.nl, Guitar Academy, Drum Academy
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWim Herder is a seasoned fullstack web developer and AI researcher with 11+ years delivering production web apps and seven years specializing in Google Cloud, Google Apps Script and Workspace integrations. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise across React, Angular, Node and Polymer with practical backend experience in Go, Python and PHP to build automation, custom add-ons and data-driven tools for clients like Booking.com, YoungCapital and H&M. A founder of Academy.nl, Wim pairs entrepreneurial product intuition—he built scheduling software for his music schools—with a track record of shipping 40+ internal apps and API-driven systems. Recently he’s focused on accessibility research, exploring computer vision and ChatGPT’s vision APIs to make video content more usable for blind and visually impaired users. His technical curiosity also shows in educational outreach—his YouTube channel has 200k+ views—illustrating a knack for explaining complex automation and bot-building concepts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Jazz Guitar, Bachelor of Arts Jazz Guitar at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de KunstenVWO Natuur en Techniek, VWO Natuur en Techniek at Stedelijk Gymnasium LeidenWiskunde, Wiskunde at University of Amsterdam
English, German, Italian, Russian, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
1,257reputation
225kreached
41answers
18questions
google-apps-script
top-5%
google-sheets
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
browser-extension10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
google-apps-script9
javascript9
open-source9
google-sheets9
browser8
chrome8
chatgpt8
search-engine7
videojs6
safari-extension6
aws6
math6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
getstrake/aws-pricing-sheets-addon
Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
Google Sheets add-on for AWS Pricing
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
awscloudcost-estimationcost-optimizationfinops
wimdenherder/naturalbornprivacy
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 18 days
hidesglasseschromeletchrome-extension
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