Hi, I'm Robert Broersma. I create clean, accessible, and performant websites and webapps. I specialize in full stack development with Typescript using React, Remix, Next.js, TailwindCSS and Node.js.
🌐Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands (UTC+2).
🗺️Work Location: Fully remote, or Amsterdam Area + maximum 45 minutes driving or public transport.
💼Looking for: Senior freelance opportunities.
🕛Availability:: Now available. Preferably 24 hours/week.
📫E-mail: robertbroersma@gmail.com
⭐Rate: Starting at €100/hr.
Questions? Shoot me a message on LinkedIn or send me an email!
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All side projects developed and designed by me!
Design and print your own map posters.
Randomly Generated Characters for Your Apps & Games
Built with Gatsby, Netlify Functions and many SVGs
A dazzlingly fast E-Commerce solution built with Typescript and Next.js. Designed and bootstrapped briefly before Vercel released their own E-Commerce solution.
Built with Next.js, Shopify, Stripe and react-query.
A fast and modern webshop for an Amsterdam based chocolate spread company.
Built with Next.js, Stripe and Netlify.
This is a small web app I created to practice chords on a piano. It works with Web MIDI Api and lets you connect a MIDI piano!
Built with React and XState
A copy-paste UI kit for developers to quickly create pages in any environment.
Built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS
August 2011 — August 2014
Bachelors degree about how to use new tech to create real world
applications that enrich the user's life in a fun or serious way.
August 2014 — August 2015
Master's degree in Game Theory, Serious Games and Gamification.
September 2021 — January 2023
Lightyear was building a car that drives on the sun. How cool is that! I was the lead developer on the website, built using React + Remix, integrated with Storyblok CMS and deployed to Cloudflare Pages for a super fast experience.
June 2018 — June 2020
Vodafone is merging with Ziggo (a dutch
TV/Phone/Internet provider) and they needed a new online shop. We've built a complex shopping basket in React and Redux. I was involved in making architectural decisions and helping junior developers in the team. During this time I also developed a keen interest in test-driven development.
August 2017 — December 2017 Ticombo is a ticket-marketplace startup. Their app is built using Angular (4+), and I worked here for a while to support their in-house (but remote) development team. It was great to experience working in a fully remote team with people from all over the world.
September 2017 — December 2017 At this small telecom company from Germany I redesigned and developed their Smart TV/Android/iPhone App for watching TV over internet. They were using Google Closure for the app, and so did I.
November 2016 — April 2017 At Vodafone I've worked in their online shop team for a while, squashing bugs, developing new features and making some architectural changes to the codebase. Using mostly HTML/CSS, Grunt, LESS and SASS.
March 2016 — May 2016
For the ministry of infrastructure and water management I developed a user
interface for one of their database utilities used in construction. This was
my first job using (at the time) a modern web framework: AngularJS. In the
backend I used Neo4j, as their datamodel represented a graph.
2015 — 2019
From this point onward I have been working as a freelance developer.
At this digital agency I further developed my specialization in front end
development using mostly HTML, LESS and SASS and good old jQuery.
Various small projects over the course of 4 years.
2013 — 2014
At this digital agency is where I unknowingly started specializing in front end
development. I mostly used vanilla HTML and CSS.
2012 — 2013
A small business, run by the university, that provides tutoring to high school
students. I worked on their custom management software in PHP/Zend
Framework.
This was my first programming gig!
- React
- Remix
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Prisma
- Netlify
- Vercel
- Cloudflare Pages & Cloudflare Workers
- Jest
- Playwright