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Renée Kooi

Location: Groningen area, Netherlands
Mail: renee@kooi.me

Modular JavaScript developer. Experienced building build tools and squeezing more code into fewer bytes. Co-maintainer of Browserify and the 🚂 Choo framework.

http://renee.kooi.me/
Open source projects: https://github.com/goto-bus-stop

Work Experience

Freelance Web Developer 2017 - present
https://uppy.io

Maintaining an open source upload component; triaging and responding to issues and input from a large community of users.

Research Developer 2018 - 2020
https://clinicjs.org

Maintaining and developing parts of the Node Clinic suite of performance tooling. Using lots of d3, and dropping down to Canvas instead of SVG for speed!

Freelance PHP Developer 2014 - 2016

Developed and maintained a forms application for an organization that helps recovering cancer patients rejoin the workforce.

Side Projects

• üWave (https://u-wave.net) - collaborative listening platform
• WLK (https://wlk.yt) - managing a community around Korean pop and indie music
• WikiBattle (https://wikibattle.me) - real-time game where players race through Wikipedia article links in search of a randomly selected target article

And many more, see my GitHub profile.

Skills

Languages
Dutch (native)
English (excellent)

Technologies
Git, JavaScript (Node, React, Choo), compilers

Other
Open source maintenance