Hi, I'm Victor

Welcome to my responsive-, and very performant website.
I am a front-end webdeveloper from the Netherlands. Currently, I am employed at Bluebird Day where I develop e-commerce and retail websites. Working on the web on and off since the early 2000's, I've been running my own business on the side, since 2009, doing freelance development and design.

Note to recruiters: this is not an invite to call or message me about a new freelance Java job. Thanks.

Currently, I like to focus on performance optimisation, ES6, VueJS, large scale (S)CSS architecture and accessibility. I am fluent in Dutch, English and sarcasm.

I went to school: In 2011 I graduated St. Joost art academy where I focussed on interactive art installations. Before that I attended a 4 year course at Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht on multimedia design (which meant learning Macromedia Director, 3D Studio Max and dragging around some tables in Dreamweaver). On the side I was building websites and taking on design jobs for bands and personal projects. This is where I actually learned something.

Work Experience

Bluebird Day, Breda, (January 2019 - now)

Senior Front-End Developer.
E-sites Retail merged with TechTwo to form the new company Bluebird Day. At Bluebird Day we develop high performance e-commerce and retail websites for clients such as Hubo, Brabantia, Bruynzeel Keukens, Cavallaro Napoli and John Beerens… to name a few.
E-sites, Breda, (December 2017 - December 2018)

Senior Front-End Developer.
E-sites asked me to join their Retail team in october of 2017. At E-sites I developed retail- and e-commerce focussed websites for over a year.
Divtag, (August 2011 - November 2017)

Front-End Developer.
At Divtag I worked with open-source systems such as WordPress, we used to do some stuff in Magento and occasionally did work in Joomla!. Next to this I also worded with their own Laravel-based CMF and did some work with static site generators. During my time at Divtag I was frequently outsourced to F19 where I developed the front-ends to annual reports for companies like NS (Dutch Railroad), MinFin (Dutch ministry of finance, I made the Miljoenennota for 2 years), ProRail, Sanquin, Boscalis to name a few.
Het Licht Multimedia, (October 2009 - now)

Boss / Front-End Developer / Designer.
My own business which I operate since 2009. Originally I simply started this to be able to send invoices for odd jobs to support me through my studies. In 2011 my girlfriend entered the company. She handles all kinds of graphic- and digital design while I handle all kinds of webdevelopment, webdesign- and multimedia projects.
Vitronics Soltec, (June 2005 - December 2008)

Multimedia Designer / Marketing.
My main duty was animating soldering-machine processes for sales presentations using Flash and structuring/designing presentations for the accountmanagers and sales representatives. Next to that I maintained all corporate identity items and handled the website. I resigned to attend the Art Academy.

Links

You can find me on Twitter, where I don't really tweet, and on LinkedIn, where I'll ignore you if you're an external recruiter.