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Good evening!

I’m Jesse Dijkstra, freelance fullstack product developer with a specialisation in frontend and user experience design.

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Experience

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Founding Developer at Osedu

Founder and fullstack developer for an open learning platform for primary and secondary education.

Technologies:

  • React
  • Python
  • NextJS
  • Typescript
  • Tailwind
  • Terraform
  • DevOps

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Fullstack Developer (Freelance) at Treams

Fullstack developer for a performance management scaleup with over 50.000 users.

Technologies:

  • React
  • Nest.JS
  • GraphQL
  • Typescript

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Fullstack Developer (Freelance) at UMC Utrecht

Fullstack developer at UMC Utrecht to build a consolidated search for laboratories to offer provisions from six different labs.

Technologies:

  • React
  • .NET Core
  • Vite
  • CSS Modules
  • Typescript

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Head of Product & Development at Twelve

Restructuring and reorganizing the product & development organization for Twelve. Spearheaded the organizational change needed to merge two companies and product portfolios and restructured the leadership organization to empower employees to make quick decisions without the need for management.

Hilights:

  • Restructured leadership organization
  • Created general roadmap for consolidating the two core products

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Senior Product Owner at DPG Media

Product owner for three teams that work on products for 35 newspapers and magazines ranging from smaller publications to larger ones. Created an in-house content planning and collaborative article editor from the ground with an article display module to consistently display articles on both app and web for all 35 brands.

Hilights:

  • Decreased production issues from multiple daily incidents to a weekly average
  • Migrated from on-prem services to AWS. Transitioned from tightly coupled to loosely coupled maintainable architecture
  • Stabilized the velocity and predictability of the output of the development teams
  • Coached teams and stakeholders to focus on achieving goals instead of individual tasks. Ad Interim responsibility for architecture for 3 squads

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Senior Fullstack Developer at DPG Media

Senior fullstack developer specialized in frontend development for quality journalism. Focus on creating an article display module to consistently display articles for all 35 brands in DPG Media with Java, NodeJS, React, React Native and Typescript.

Spearheaded building a new collaborative article editor within the editorial content planning systems and introduced Typescript and micro-frontends within the editorial systems.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Cypress
  • React
  • React-Native
  • NodeJS
  • Typescript
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Java
  • SpringBoot

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Senior Fullstack Developer at Defacto

Product developer specialized in building large scalable single page applications. Heavily involved in tasks ranging from product development and user experience design to application architecture.

Primary tasks include maintaining code quality and standards for a Elixir/Phoenix application and setting up and driving recruitment efforts and migrating to latest EmberJS for various applications.

Authored CellJS, ex_cell and ex_css_modules to improve the frontend development workflow for the new flagship Phoenix product for Defactor.

Technologies:

  • PostgreSQL
  • Heroku
  • EmberJS
  • Elixir
  • Phoenix
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails

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Lead Frontend Developer at Blendle

First employee and core contributor on various projects. Involved in conceptualization of key features, UX, frontend and backend.

Core developer of two of our flagship projects from the ground up and driving force in developing frontend testing strategies.

Closely involved in hiring and training of new frontend developers and developed various strategies on how hiring should be implemented in a fast growing company.

Technologies:

  • BackboneJS
  • React
  • AWS
  • HAL/JSON
  • Ruby
  • Sinatra
  • Clojure
  • Python