About me
Hello. I'm Stijn,
A creative webdeveloper focused
on building awesome projects.
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Like the title says, I live for music and webdevelopment! It's where my two passions collide. Ofcourse I'm always available for non-music related projects, it's just more fun when music is involved!
While coding I always keep the end-user in mind, as well as performance. I'm not a desinger, but I do have a keen eye for good design an bad user-experience.
I love webstandards! I'm even a member of the W3C Music Notation Community Group, developing and maintaining standards for MusicXML.
My passion for music is mainly driven by being a guitar player. On a lazy sunday I also like to go out and take some pretty pictures.
Resume
Here's my education, work experience and some skills I've got.
Skills
Education
- Interactive Multimedia Design
2009-2013 (gratuated) - Thomas MoreInspite of what the title says I was taught both design and webdevelopment. I even chose webapplication development as my main focus.
- Information managment and -systems
2008-2009 - Thomas MoreThis was the hardcore business oriented IT. Mainly complex database management and networking solutions. It wasn't my big interest so I switched to a more creative approach to IT.
- Social Technical Science
2002-2008 (gratuated)This is where they taught me to be a genuinely nice guy.
Employment
- Founder / Web and Mobile Development Consultant @ tritone
2017 - ...React, React Native, AngularJS, javascript, CSS, NodeJS, MongoDB, KeystoneJS, PHP, MySQL
- CTO/Development Lead @ Poppunt
2016 - 2017NodeJS, MongoDB, JavaScript, Jade, Grunt, SCSS, SASS, Java, PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, KeystoneJS
- Software Engineer @ neoScores
2014 - 2016NodeJS, Express, CouchDB, JavaScript, AmpersandJS, Jade, Grunt, SCSS, SASS, Jasmine, Jenkins
- Interactive Developer @ B.U.T
2013 - 2014ExpressionEngine, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SASS
- .NET Consultant @ Alti.Cernum
2013 - 2013.NET
- internship @ BoulevArt
2012 - 2013Drupal, Flash, SIM Messagent
Portfolio
Latest projects
I've worked on.
- All
- Music
- Front-end
- ExpressionEngine
- KeystoneJS
- Wordpress
- NodeJS
- PHP
- JS
- MonogoDB
- CouchDB
Unfortunately, I can't show all of my projects because some of them took place under a non-disclosure agreement
Lokale Helden
Frontend / Music / KeystoneJS / NodeJS / MongoDB
Lokale Helden
Lokale Helden has one simple goal, encouraging local organisations to book talent withing their
region. A project by poppunt, aimed at giving local artists a stage where they can present
them selves. All on one day across flanders and brussels.
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vi.be
Frontend / Music
vi.be
vi.be is a platform thats simplifies every aspect of bringing new talent to the right
places. A project by poppunt build in collaboration with LodgOn, the company that provided
the backend java architecture.
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Poppunt website
Music / Frontend / PHP
Poppunt website
Originally designed and developed by Design Skills, I maintained and updated this wordpress
website. The biggest challenge here was countering the many security en performance issues
that this site faced. Besides updating and bugfixing the website I had to maintain the AWS
server instance as well. Luckily I'm very familiar with AWS and I'm used to working on Linux.
While traffic was increasing, I managed to keep up this high memory
demanding website without added monthly costs with the use of some smart tweaks.
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Scored
Music / Frontend / PHP / javascript
Scored
Scored is an online platform that allows musicians to write (sheet)music together in real time. It was born as my final project and kept me busy during the past few years.
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neoScores/Gustaf
Music / javascript / CouchDB / NodeJS
neoScores/Gustaf
neoScores strives to get rid of paper sheet music. Therefore they have created Gustaf, a webapplication that makes sheet music interactive and responsive! You can even buy scores from the world's biggest publishers.
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Univeg
Frontend / ExpressionEngine / PHP
Univeg
Univeg wanted to redesign their ExpressionEngin based website. My task was to translate a static design into a template for their ExpressionEngine CMS
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Glass Catalog
Frontend / ExpressionEngine
Glass Catalog
O-I's Glass Catalog was almost finished when I came to help out. My asignment was to make their ExpressionEngine based website multilingual, in a way they could easily add languages and let a translation company do all the translations from within ExpressionEngine's CMS. This wasn't an easy task considering the heavy use of javascript in the front end.
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The Future Build
Frontend / ExpressionEngine / PHP
The Future Build
The Future Build was one of the biggest Dubai related projects I've done so far. They wanted their search and products browser to load the products once and from then on be searchable and filterable without ever needing to do one request to the server. Concidering the immens list of products and filters this wasn't an easy task performance wise. This is the project where I I definitely learned the importance of keeping performance in mind the hard way. But after all, it ended well, and from then on performace became key in all my work.
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Live View
ExpressionEngine / PHP
Live View
One of the things that bothered me in ExpressionEngine was that you never knew how your content really looked until you visited the website. I wanted clients to notice when their wysiwyg content doesn't look good on tablets or smartphone. They are the end users of our projects, not developers that are used to testing this kind of stuff. Non of the existing add-ons for ExpressionEngine offered this kind of functionality, so I made an add-on myself.
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