Mitchel Kuijpers is a Lead Developer with 15 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and developer tools, currently leading engineering at Atlas CRM in Nijmegen. He specializes in Clojure and ClojureScript and has contributed meaningful backend and full-stack improvements to notable open-source projects like elastisch (ElasticSearch client) and Fulcro, adding aggregation features, native bulk support, and UI/reconciler fixes. His background spans Java EE, Confluence plugin development, PHP/CakePHP web apps, and .NET desktop tooling, giving him a broad pragmatic toolkit across stacks. As a former agency founder and long-time application developer, he blends product-minded engineering with operational experience running Linux servers and releasing customer-facing features. Colleagues rely on him to modernize integrations and shipping robust, test-covered changes that improve both developer ergonomics and runtime performance.
A library for development of single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mitchel made several contributions focused on improving the Fulcro library, a full-stack web application framework. Their work includes adding a "shared" option for the Om reconciler and fixing subform support for new entities within the UI. They also addressed a bug related to dynamic routing and loading states. Furthermore, the user updated the website with the new logo and made other UI/UX improvements.
A minimalistic Clojure client for ElasticSearch, supports both HTTP and native transports
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 14 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Mitchel primarily focused on enhancing the Clojure client for ElasticSearch, introducing new features and improving the functionality of the native driver. Their work included the addition of top_hits aggregation, support for nested aggregations for various data types, and the implementation of native bulk support. These changes involved modifying core conversion functions and adding related test cases. The user also addressed code improvements and fixes.
clojureelasticsearch
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