Jorik Tangelder
Staff UX Engineer at Google
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJorik Tangelder is a Staff UX Frontend Engineer based in Arnhem with 14 years of experience building polished, production-grade interfaces at scale, currently leading UX frontend work at Google. He has driven UI and productivity improvements for planet-scale data exploration and a secure execution platform that materially reduced incident mitigation time. A longtime open-source contributor, he’s improved touch testing in gremlins.js, fixed core JavaScript and build issues across high-profile projects like Hammer.js and axios, and contributed to tooling such as sass-loader. Jorik combines deep front-end craftsmanship with build and automation expertise, and his early career roots in design and full-stack web development give him a rare blend of visual sensibility and engineering rigor.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Developer, Computer Engineering, Software Developer, Computer Engineering at Graafschap College
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
jquery10
hammer10
testing10
node-sass10
sass10
hammerjs10
webpack10
http-client10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
webpack-loader10
nodejs10
frontend10
touch-event10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hammerjs/jquery.hammer.js
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
jQuery plugin for Hammer.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jorik's commits primarily focused on updating and fixing tests related to mouse and touch events for the jQuery plugin. They modified test files (mousetouchevents.html, pointerevents_mouse.html, pointerevents_touch.html, touchevents.html, mouseevents.html, utils.html), likely to ensure the plugin's compatibility and correctness across different event types (mouse, touch, and pointer). Furthermore, the user's contributions extended to updating node packages and build configurations.
hammerjsjquery-plugin
hammerjs/hammerjs.github.io
Jun 2014 - Mar 2022
Website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:187 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jorik's commits primarily focus on fixing JavaScript issues within the project, as indicated by commit messages like "fix js." The code changes involve modifications to the `assets/js/index.js` file, suggesting work on the project's core JavaScript logic and functionality, most likely related to the main website behavior. These commits also include modifications to the `index.html` and `assets/css/index.css` files, pointing to a focus on maintaining or improving the project's front-end interface.
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