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Jesse van der Pluijm

Programmer

Hello, my name is Jesse and I am a programmer with a passion for design.

“Insanely organized and logical to the nth degree, Jesse guides through elegance, to beautiful code.”  — Theo Rosendorf, founder of Glyphic.

Contact

Email. [email protected]

GitHub. github.com/jessevdp

Twitter. twitter.com/jessevdp_

Competences

Ruby (Rails), Domain Modeling (DDD, Pragmatic), JavaScript (React, NodeJS), HTML, CSS (Sass, Tailwind), SQL (PostgreSQL), Unix (command line).

Experience

Ruby on Rails Programmer

iO, Rotterdam (2021 – present)

At iO, I build & maintain several websites, webapps, and APIs for various clients. Primarily using my favorite programming language & framework Ruby on Rails.

Web Developer

Glyphic, Remote (2017 – 2021)

At Glyphic, the work consisted mainly of building complex user interfaces. Usually using straight HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sometimes using React.

Software Engineering Internship

Bol.com, Utrecht (2021)

During my internship at bol.com I worked on an internal platform for security related forms that helped automate their process. Built using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Angular.

Software Engineering Internship

We Are You Agency, Den Bosch (2019 – 2020)

My internship project at We Are You consisted of research into combining Umbraco CMS with JAMstack principles. During this internship I created gatsby-source-umbraco.

“Jesse is a passionate engineer who excels in acquiring new knowledge. His work is very well organized and he has a keen eye for detail, both from a technological perspective as in regard to customer requests.”  — Rob Habraken, CTO at We are you Agency.

Education

Software Engineering (Major)

Avans University, Den Bosch (2017 – 2021)

At Avans University, I majored in software engineering. Besides learning all about the various technologies that we can use in our projects, I learned how to complete work in a project-based manner following both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Software Architecture (Minor)

Avans University, Den Bosch (2020 – 2021)

During my minor, I learned about software architecture by designing and building a custom (2D) game engine using c++ alongside a game to run on that engine. Watch the game trailer.

Languages

Dutch
English

Hobbies

Kickboxing, Scouting, Kitesurfing, Backpacking, Snowboarding.

Preferred Tools

MacOS. Neovim, btw.