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Menno Wildeboer Software Monsieur

Full-stack software engineer with more than 12.5 years of experience, building for the Web within startup and enterprise environments.

Technical skills

From early stage startups to enterprises, during the ride I worked with the following:

JavaScript

Good old JavaScript, the godfather of the interactive Web with an everchanging ecosystem. Skills: Web Components, Astro, Solid.js, Tailwind, Turborepo, Vite.

TypeScript

TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, giving you better tooling at any scale. Skills: Prisma, tRPC, Vanilla Extract, Zod.

React

React came, stirred everything and is now the most dominant frontend framework used by many. Skills: Next.js, Remix, React Hook Form, React Router, Redux.

Vue.js

Vue.js is the big alternative to React, for people that want a different approach or don't like Facebook. Skills: Nuxt, Pinia, Vue Router, VeeValidate.

Svelte

Svelte is the new cool kid in frontend wonderland trying to grab terrain from React and Vue.js. Skills: SvelteKit.

Node.js

Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment, so we can run JavaScript outside the browser. Skills: Fastify, h3, GraphQL, Knex, Socket.io.

Go(lang)

A programming language initially developed at Google, simple to easy but brute speed and stability. Skills: Echo, Chi, pgx, Hugo, Prometheus, Testify.

Ruby

Ruby is known for its sexy syntax and the batteries-included Ruby on Rails framework to build fast. Skills: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Devise, Sequel, Sidekiq.

PHP

My first backend language to write application server. Though I prefer other languages, never forget where things started. Skills: Laravel, Slim, CodeIgniter, Twig.

Swift

A programming language, a thing of beauty, created by Apple to write iOS and Mac apps. Skills: SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, Alamofire, Nimble.

DevOps, storage and testing

To make sure apps run smooth and we can save data, there is the following software to support us: AWS, Docker, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Redis, Playwright.

Design

Love visual design since I was young. From that moment on I found my way in design tools and processes to team up with fellow creatives. Skills: Figma, Storybook, Design Tokens.

Experience

Over the years I worked for big companies, agencies, media outlets and startups.

KPN

KPN

KPN is a Dutch telecommunications company. originated from a government-run postal, telegraph and telephone service.

Simyo

Simyo

Simyo is a mobile provider, a daughter company of KPN that makes use of their network.

MakerStreet

MakerStreet

MakerStreet is a creative collective, run by a group of entrepreneurial makers.

ANWB

ANWB

The Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB offers a wide range of services in the areas of recreation, tourism and mobility.

Zorg en Zekerheid

Zorg en Zekerheid

Zorg en Zekerheid is a local Dutch Health Insurance company.

NOS

NOS

NOS is one of the broadcasting organisations making up the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system.

Aiden

Aiden

Aiden is a robo-advice platform that enables organisations to offer product advice in a user-friendly and compliant way.

pr.co

pr.co

pr.co enables communication teams to efficiently execute PR strategies.

Arya (acquired by HelloBetter)

Arya (acquired by HelloBetter)

ARYA is a mood-reflection tool to support therapy of mental illness like depression.

Gibbon (acquired by Degreed)

Gibbon (acquired by Degreed)

Gibbon is a p2p learning platform to make knowledge sharing easy. Acquired by Degreed in 2016.

Pause.fm

Pause.fm

Pause curates and documents the best music content on the web in an iOS magazine.

TNW (a Financial Times company)

TNW (a Financial Times company)

TNW is an online publisher of tech and web development news.

Mobgen (acquired by Accenture)

Mobgen (acquired by Accenture)

Mobgen is a digital mobile marketing & native app development agency.

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

For a Communication & Multimedia Design course, I taught students the basics of programming.

Little Chicken

Little Chicken

Little Chicken is a game development studio with over 15 years of experience.

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