Hello, my name is Bas.

viaBOVAG.nl allows its visitors to find their next car by looking through what's available at all of BOVAG's car-dealers within seconds. The Apollo team manages and maintains the platform and implements new features for both visitors and platform-managers.

Recent projects include a massive overhaul of the old MVC platform to a JS-based SSR-stack and implementing a headless CMS to shorten the workflow for content-managers. In my role I focussed on improving Developer Experience and TTM, as well as improving communications with the other viaBOVAG teams.

NN Group split their existing app team into two teams to allow more focus on a new platform that could support all app-contributors with a single, dependable tech-stack.

Our team collected and reviewed needs and wants from all stakeholders and converted them into a standardised developer toolkit. This helped devs from other Business Units to generate deployable code that conformed to the strict NN guidelines.

The IML team was tasked with implementing a new way of working for Datacare at VGZ. As part of this team I helped bring about a transition to micro-frontends and -services by developing a new platform based on Azure. I developed custom tooling using LitElement, a custom NodeJS CLI-tool, and more.

The team operated as a “competence centre” for these new techniques, where we collected requirements and feedback and provided information and instruction to increase adoption of the toolkit.

I worked as part of the Moonshot-team on NN’s new NOVA app. We used React Native, an AWS “serverless” backend, and the international banking standard PSD2 to help users find new insights in their expenses.

I improved the team’s “Developer Experience” with POCs and worked on the CI/CD. As Scrum Master I helped overcome the daily Agile challenges using Azure DevOps.

Using LitElement components, ESNext and a NodeJS backend, our small “Synergy” team built an internal platform where every team can generate their own educational content.

Next to my work as a developer I was also a contact for users and content-providers of this application.

TWC was a marketleader in ’Video-on-demand’ apps. Their clients included Disney, HBO, and Dutch media agencies as NOS, RTL, and Talpa. They have recently been acquired by Warner Media.

I worked on a project that connected desktop- and Smart-TV-apps to an existing backend for one of TWC's clients. These apps were made up of a common core of code, that was extended in design and functions for specific brands. I restructured this app to improve agile velocity and code readability.

I was also part of a 2 developer, 3 sprint project to completely rewrite the existing Smart-TV-app for RTLXL.

At KLM I worked as Frontend Lead on a large internal project where the multiple HR-related websites used by 32.000 KLM employees were replaced by a new custom system. Within the project I helped generate a result that improved on speed, usability and accessibility by using a combination of new techniques.

Next to this I set up a new Frontend test-flow using Cypress en Atlassian Bamboo.

Within the “OmniShop”-team I worked on a solution that replaced multiple outdated applications with one new system based on Angular, Webpack and Sass.

Next to syncing and developing functionality based on the need of KPN callcenter- and retail-employees, I supported the team by updating our build-tools and CI/CD pipeline, a NodeJS backend, and by improving automated testing.

Railway-inspectors at ProRail documented their work in Excel, a time-consuming process that was prone to errors. ProRail tasked us with quickly generating a solution that enabled inspectors to record and log their work fully digitally.

Our solution was a hybrid mobile app that provided functionality to directly link photo’s to an inspection-form, and to send these forms using custom built HTML e-mails. Within three sprints our MVP was ready for testing by ProRail’s inspectors.

Few are aware that some of the hardware at the Dutch tracks is nearly 50 years old. All these relays were tested by hand by ProRail’s subcontractors using custom built hardware and complicated administrative processes.

We developed a solution that reduced this process to five minutes, by using a hybrid mobile app and a companion desktop app. Both apps communicated seamlessly with the specialist hardware. In this project I also translated between our designers, developers and stakeholders.

CYSO started a public cloud service in 2014 using OpenStack. For these services I worked within the development team, designing and implementing new functions and interfaces.

Next to this I offered support to Marketing- and Salescampaigns. Using techniques like ITCSS, BEM and a Static Webpage-builder we reduced the time needed to load our pages with 30% and greatly improved the time needed to design and build new pages.

When I worked as a Designer at i-motive the company grew tremendously. To properly handle all the new requests we worked together with art-directors, SQL-specialists and end-users to develop a product that allowed users more insight in their marketing statistics and created an overview of their scheduled productions.

As a teacher in Graphic- and Webdesign it was my responsibility to help young people with disabilities transition towards a job in graphic design. To help them better prepare for the market, we worked together with local businesses to set up a copyshop within Heliomare.

The POS-system and website were created and designed specifically to match this special target audience.