Profile
I am a perfectionist all-round web programmer and architect with strong communication and training skills. After years of experience as a front-end developer (Ajax) my recent focus has been on data-driven web application development using the Python-based Django framework.
I focus heavily on separation of concern, design patterns and reusable components. A big-time advocate of project automation, I love to continuously look for ways to further optimize workflows, all while making sure to deliver on time and within budget.
I am based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Currently working at
More about me
- LinkedIn: professional profile
- Yuri van der Meer Photography: freelance photography
- Flickr.com: miscellaneous photos
Side projects
- Django HTTP Proxy: a simple HTTP proxy
- Django Granulite: transforming XML responses using XSLT
Technical experience
- Python – 6 years, expert; Django, FeinCMS, unittest2, networking, South, virtualenv, pip, Fabric, Sphinx
- Database design / SQL – 8 years, good; PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
- JavaScript, DOM – 9 years, expert
- Ajax, Rich Internet Applications – 7 years, expert; jQuery, Backbase
- XHTML, CSS – 12 years, expert
- XML, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema – 7 years, expert
- Unix Shell scripting – 3 years, good
- Apache Ant – 3 years, good
- PHP 5 – 4 years, good; Smarty, PHP Savant, Phing, PHP Documentor