beyond bytes erik van 't Klooster

Freelance Frontend Developer


Location

Arnhem, The Netherlands

Phone

+316 221 22 331

Hi!

I'm Erik

A Front-end developer with strong communication skills and much experience in building web applications with Angular, Typescript, and Javascript. I was able to build up that knowledge through an autodidactic approach and my passion for web development. I have that drive to never give up and only stop learning until I fully understand and master the technology. I strive for perfection and I like to get things logically structured. You can expect me to do my work with an analytical attitude and a sharp eye for detail.

What gives me energy? Building cool features together with my team. Deliver high quality within the time boundaries, while keeping that sharp eye for details.

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Expertise

What to expect from me
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Frontend Professional

I have 10 years experience in building front-end applications with Angular and Typescript. My main goal is to deliver high-quality code that meets the project requirements and provides an excellent user experience. I really like discussing and applying front-end architecture and its patterns.

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Team Player

A dedicated and motivated team player with a strong work ethic and excellent interpersonal skills. That’s me. Always happy to contribute with a collaborative mindset, effective communication and problem-solving capabilities to foster a positive and productive team environment.

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Auto Didactic

My skills and experience in building web applications are gathered through an autodidactic approach. By diving into the APIs of frameworks and languages, I developed that drive to never give up and only stop learning until I fully understand and master the technology.

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Sharp eye on the details

I stand for maintainable code that is easy to understand. I have a really strong focus on the details and I'm always striving the highest possible quality. In a development team I'll probably be the guy that introduces code conventions and reaches out to team mates to get and keep the code base logically structured.

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Coaching

I have now also discovered how much energy it gives to be able to transfer the knowledge I have acquired myself to other developers. And to guide them, or even a whole team, in developing logically structured and well-functioning front-end applications.

Skills

To give an impression
99%

Angular

90%

Typescript

90%

Javascript

70%

CSS / Sass

80%

HTML

70%

Git

70%

Cypress

85%

Jasmine / Jest

80%

Storybook

75%

RxJs

60%

NgRx

70%

Nx

Team Feedback

What others say about me
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A Hardworking individual

Erik is definitely a hardworking individual (if not the most hard working of our FE bunch). That feeling comes from the fact that he seems to always be involved in many things at once, being it initiatives or just plain tickets.

What I also see, is that he is not scared to get hands dirty or to take on very complex topics, good example is tackling OpenAPI or pushing on Storybook transformation.

I also value his reviews of my own PR's, which are always very meticulous and usually on point. Never ever have I got a comment from him which didn't make logical sense, so I usually go for it. Also resolving the discussion is usually very fast and within PR itself, so that is a plus.

Greg Kaczan - Lead Front-end Developer
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Paying attention to the details

I strongly believe that Erik has good Angular knowledge and JavaScript in general. I really value his attention to the details, those small things when sum up makes the differences. Example of that can be all the linting rules + structural changes in our project, vscode snippets even picking up ng-deep was a delighter.

And what is more impressive I have the feeling he is doing it in between a regular feature development (like his time is stretching or something).

Also I like his calm down attitude and this striving for a solution with the stubbornness of a maniac (I think you can't be Angular pro without such mindset). Which can be seen in multiple technical discussion topics he started on our tech-frontend slack channel.

Jarosław Załucki - Lead Front-end Developer

Experience

IT / Frontend
sept 2023 – present

Qirion

Front-end Developer

Duiven, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Front-end development in team Purple for a new end-user tool. An innovative solution that contributes to the energy transition.

nov 2021 – jun 2023

Soda

Front-end Developer

Belgium, Remote

Front-end development for the Soda Cloud web application. Soda provides a Data Quality Testing platform. The cloud product offers Soda customers an online environment where they can actively monitor and collaborate on the management of their data quality.

dec 2014 – nov 2021

Achmea, Centraal Beheer

Lead Front-end Developer

Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Front-end development for a large portion of the Centraal Beheer Achmea sales funnels. As a technical Lead for the generic Achmea IT teams, I got the opportunity to build the Centraal Beheer front-end platform from the ground up in Angular. Together with other developers, I migrated a lot of the existing AngularJS funnels to this new platform. Several development teams have now built approximately 100 Angular applications on the platform.

sept 2006 – nov 2014

Pre IT Experience

Spatial Planner

The Netherlands

Before I was able to take the opportunity to become a front-end developer, I was active in spatial planning, a different branch. I'm a graduated spatial planner and have been working for INBO, a large architectural company. My activities consisted of directing spatial projects, advising on (re)development and transformation of real estate and industrial estates, drawing up spatial-economic master plans, land and real estate exploitations, and feasibility analyses.

Clients

Education

2015

Sitecore

Certified Sitecore .Net Developer License

Tilburg, The Netherlands

2014

Open University

Bachelor Informatica, Module databases

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2011 – 2012

Scobe

Plan Economics

Den Bosch, The Netherlands

2003 – 2006

Radboud University

Spatial Planning

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

1999 – 2003

Technical High School

Civil Engineering

Arnhem, The Netherlands