Tjalling Schakel
Transportation Strategy Lead
Greater Groningen Area Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarTjalling Schakel is a transportation strategy leader with over 25 years at Philips, currently driving global transportation strategy from the Greater Groningen area. He has progressed through logistics and management roles to senior director level, blending deep operational experience with strategic planning across complex global supply chains. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs commercial and technical sensibilities to optimize transport networks and supplier ecosystems. Outside corporate strategy he contributes to open-source software—improving front-end React components and hardening back-end tooling for source-map reconstruction—showing hands-on coding chops uncommon at his leadership level. This mix of long-term enterprise experience and active technical curiosity enables him to translate detailed engineering fixes into scalable logistics improvements.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
5answers
3questions
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
youtube-api10
component-development10
sourcemaps10
error-handling10
nodejs10
react10
debugging9
front-end-development9
linting8
jsx8
jtest8
jestjs8
jes8
browserify6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tjallingt/react-youtube
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
react.js powered YouTube player component
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 102 commits, 72 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tjalling primarily focused on enhancing the `react-youtube` component. They refactored the component to reuse the YouTube player, improving efficiency. Key changes involved moving event handlers to internal methods for better customization and addressing issues with `props.opts` changes. They also improved the code by fixing linting errors, using modern Javascript syntax, and making the codebase more robust by correctly handling URL formats.
reactyoutube-player
paazmaya/shuji
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Reverse engineering JavaScript and CSS sources from sourcemaps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tjalling primarily contributed to improving the `shuji` project, which is focused on reverse engineering JavaScript and CSS source maps. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to asynchronous operations, variable shadowing, and typos. They also improved error messages and addressed linting issues to enhance the code's quality and maintainability.
cssjavascriptreverse-engineeringsourcemapsnodejs
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