Laurens Kling
Web Developer Owner at Goed idee media
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLaurens Kling is a seasoned front-end engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building high-performance, component-driven web apps through his agency Goed idee media. He specializes in the React ecosystem—Gatsby, GraphQL, Redux and Strapi—prioritizing developer experience, immutable patterns and universal rendering to deliver fast, secure PWAs that score 100/100 on PageSpeed. Equally comfortable consulting inside agile teams for clients like eBay/Marktplaats, ANWB and Avira, he combines hands-on coding with a styling-first sensibility rooted in CSS and modern layout systems like Flexbox. An active participant in the React community and open source, he pairs agency delivery with continual experimentation in tooling (Webpack/Babel, Docker, Netlify/Gatsby Cloud) to push practical frontend architecture forward.
16 years of coding experience
HBO, Bachelor of ICT, Communcation and Multimedia Design, HBO, Bachelor of ICT, Communcation and Multimedia Design at Hogeschool van Arnhem en NijmegenMBO, Business School, MBO, Business School at Rijn IJssel College
English, Dutch, Papiamento, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
cms10
dashboard10
sitemap10
css-in-js10
npm-package10
styled-components10
security10
keystonejs10
command-line-tool10
netlify-cms10
styled-system10
monitoring10
javascript10
decap-cms10
theming10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
laurenskling/strapi
May 2020 - Oct 2025
🚀 Open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs
Contributions:22 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
cmsapinode-jscustomisablenodejs
laurenskling/gatsby
Nov 2019 - Jun 2024
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
reactblazing-fastblazing
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