Filidor Wiese

To streamline turnaround process of an airplane and make it more predictable, Schiphol Airport has developed Turnaround Insights. At the aircraft stand, cameras are positioned in order to collect a series of snapshots. A deep learning algorithm then converts these snapshots into data and recognises specific elements of a turnaround, such as the arrival of a baggage truck or when fueling has started. This enables us to pinpoint the start and end of each event and to measure the time in between. The resulting timestamps show the progress in the turnaround.

My work as a fullstack developer has been focussed on creating the user-interfaces needed for Schiphol operations to use this data in a user-friendly way and for data scientists to train the computer vision model to recognize events that are happening in real-time.

In 2021 I've worked on a major revamp of the Oni.nl webhosting product. The first phase was all about re-engineering the front-end application to have a fresh new look. The goal was to greatly improve the user experience of both the public facing website and the control panel for clients to manage their webhosting products (invoices, e-mail, databases, dns, ssl, etc). This rewrite was also a good opportunity to move away from AngularJs to React, which allowed for improved search-engine optimization and future proofing the front-end stack. In the second phase I've migrated all services (webhosting, e-mail, dns) from dedicated hardware to a multi-cloud infrastructure based on Kubernetes. The end-result is a highly-available, scalable and more performant webhosting platform.

Design: Arthur van 't Hoog

At Schiphol Airport I've been working on an in-house application (called Wilbur) which is used to keep track of the current and ever-changing situation at the terminals. This interactive real-time dashboard is used by Schiphol operations in several control-rooms to monitor luggage, planes and crowded areas in order to minimize disruptions and optimize the flow of passengers.

As a fullstack developer in one of the feature teams, I've implemented features such as a faceted search based on ElasticSearch and an interactive map of areas and corridors. Additionally, I've been focussing on maturing the tech-stack from a prototype to a mission-critical application that can be relied upon 24/7. To that end, I've played a major role in migrating the infrastructure from classic VM's to a cloud-native OpenShift platform and rewriting the codebase to use Kafka as the core for reliably stream-processing thousands of data events per minute.

For this antiques store, I've written a multilingual webshop from scratch using React and Laravel Lumen. It's written as an isomorphic Single Page Application with a RESTful backend and a custom CMS to manage content, products and orders. The webshop works nicely on modern devices and is written to perform well for a global audience. Next to that, I've made it a personal challenge to optimize the codebase for search engines to the best of my abilities. Amongst others this includes highly optimized markup, multilingual sitemaps and structured data.

The design is by Arthur van 't Hoog, the 360° virtual tour by Rob Jansma.

At Leaseplan I was part of a small cross-functional product team developing a new booking tool based on regular user testing. After a few months this project formed the basis for a large new department, called Leaseplan Digital, tasked with building a fresh new global platform from scratch for the different services offered throughout Europe. A vibrant work environment where testing, code reviews and pair programming was an important part of closely working together with dozens of developers in a single codebase. Later, in my role as Lead Developer, I’ve focused on code quality, team productivity and continuous development.

A campaign website for the Dutch government to bring more awareness about antibiotic resistance to health care providers. Using the webcam a user could grow a digital hand signature from bacteria. A large poster of this unique graphic would then be delivered to be hung on the wall of the practitioner. My involvement in the project included animating the signature and generating the poster image en masse using WebGL. Agency: Superhero Cheesecake

Gelredome, one of the largest stadiums and concert halls in the Netherlands was a relatively straight-forward, but nevertheless fun assignment to develop the front-end of. Some subtle animation effects gave the design a finishing touch. Agency: Bureau BlauwGeel

An online experience telling the story of the Great Fire of London in 1666. I technically adapted three historic hand-drawn maps from before and after the fire to exactly overlap the current map of the city. It entailed automated stretching, transforming and slicing the massive image files and visualizing them using the Google Maps Api. Agency: Logirix

Starting in mid 2014, I was part of a small cross-functional team to create a new vision for TNT's shipping tool, mytnt and mobile app. After a couple of months of development and extensive user testing we've delivered a prototype that was well received by the company. In the months to follow, the team expanded into an entire new department. Our goal was to develop the best user experience possible for the TNT global platform. The booking tool I’ve helped to create is currently used in 50+ countries and 30+ languages.

The latest website of hosting company Oni. It features an open part where customers can order new domains, find general information and technical help articles about their web services. The closed part offers a custom build self-service interface where invoicing, domains, webspace, email, dns, ssl and databases can be fully managed. The website is build as a single page application in Angularjs, with Zend Framework for the Restful API's. Design: Arthur van 't Hoog

At KLM I started out in the Scrum team which was responsible for the homepage. A challenging project where diverse code from other teams had to come together. After that I’ve worked on the Travel Inspiration Finder, a visually pleasing online guide for travelers who are in the orientation phase of their next journey. It offers information about 600+ destinations in 30 languages, which a user can filter based on budget, temperature, interest, etc. The tool has been built with Backbone and was the first project in which I applied both unit and e2e testing to front-end code.

Mathijs Alderliesten (visual designer) and myself developed an animated, interactive map that a user could use to explore information about Heineken's brands and breweries world wide. This map helped to visualize the fact that they are “the world’s most international brewer”. The responsive and cross-browser requirements of the assignment made it a challenging but fun project. Agency: Jungle Minds

Jungle Minds asked me to develop the front-end for the largest stadium in the Netherlands, now called the Johan Cruyff Arena. The project entailed a difficult design at that time that needed to be responsive and cross-browser compatible from IE7 upwards. The back-end was done by GX software.

After my personal website had won an Awwwards award in 2011, I was contacted by Wildlife, a Los Angeles based digital agency. They asked me to code an extraordinarily complex design they had made to showcase their work. The many parallax and sprite animations required sought to push the boundaries of what's possible in a web browser. I’ve had great fun working on this project, which won both a FWA and Awwwards award.

The MijnTU project was the first that I participated in in a Scrum/Agile work environment, where several teams worked together on one of the largest web shops in Europe. As the front-end coder I collaborated closely with the back-end and visual design to turn the many static designs into functional, cross-browser templates.